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owlful en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈaʊlfl̩/
• /ˈaʊlfʊl/
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Etymology

From owl + -ful.

Meanings

1. (literary) Full of owls.
   • What // is that on the unmooned owlful slope, // the silver movement five yards west of your glance? 2001, J. Allyn Rosser, Misery Prefigured, part three, “Rods and R.”, pages 40–41, lines 34–36
   • Mrs Adcock will invariably force you to take two, leaving you to stagger into the owlful night. 1984, Punch, volume CCLXXXVI, number ii, page 67:
   • Impenetrable growth surrounds him. // Owlful. Batful. // Great moths of prey. 1973, Thomas Kinsella, “The Clearing”, in Daniel Halpern, editor, Antæus, page 105:

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