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packetful en · NOUN

Etymology

From packet + -ful.

Meanings

1. Enough to fill a packet.
   • We had been told that commuters walking these sidewalks day after day, and mailmen, and bobbies, had scattered packetfuls of flower garden seeds and that those seeds had produced a gay display. 1971, May Theilgaard Watts, Reading the Landscape of Europe, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 279:
   • Benedicta called Harold into her room, leaving Meta without, a prey to envy at the preference thus shown; but a few kind words and a packetful of judiciously-bestowed chocolates pacified the soul and stomach of little Meta, who went to bed rejoicing. [1881], Mrs. Alfred Phillips, “A Registered Letter”, in Benedicta, London: Frederick Warne and Co., →OCLC, page 257:
   • He dropped a few packetsful of sugar on the desk and then sat. 1988, Sam Stewart, Payback, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 193:

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