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paperful en · NOUN

Etymology

From paper + -ful.

Meanings

1. Enough to fill a paper.
   • At various drugstores in such places as Purdy’s, Golden’s Bridge, Brewster, Croton Falls, Katonah and Mount Kisco, as well as Ridgefield, Scotts Corners, Pound Ridge and New Caanan, I bought about a ton of eye makeup, lipstick, powder, papersful of bobby pins, curlers (me! curlers!) and other tools for the conversion of Woman As Harper’s Bazaar Believes Her To Be. 1965, Richard Gehman, The Had, New York, N.Y.: Trident Press, page 162:
   • The parent had put pins by papersful, / Till she was like a frightful porcupine;[…] 1895, Charles Godfrey Leland, “Melodramnation”, in Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land, London: Adam and Charles Black, page 174:
   • Yvonne scooped up two more paperfuls of flour by the time he returned with her broom and dustpan. 2019, Allie Pleiter, Wander Canyon Courtship, Harlequin, →ISBN:

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