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sofaful en · NOUN

Etymology

From sofa + -ful.

Meanings

1. (no-plural) Enough to fill a sofa.
   • Toss our Lazyback sofa pillows anywhere![…]Buy a sofaful of them, for comfort! 1955 June 5, Los Angeles Times, volume LXXIV, part III, page 9:
   • Nearby, a sofaful of middle-aged people were relaxing pretty well, but one lady in the group kept opening her eyes and looking around to see how everyone else was doing. 1962, James Stevenson, Do Yourself a Favor, Kid, The Macmillan Company, page 96:
   • It suggests a prim aunt playing “proverbs” with a sofaful of priggish little nieces, and is a studied insult to cards and chess. 1921 September 24, Raymund Allen, “From My Study: Mental Recreation”, in Western Mail, number 16,326, page 9:
   • Scatter these colorful pillows in every room, buy several extras for your porch chairs, too![…]Come in and pick up a sofaful while they last at this one low price. 1956 July 22, Akron Beacon Journal, 117th year, number 229, page 29:
   • Accommodate big groups. A ‘sofaful’ or ‘age plus one’ is plenty. 2019, Lala Manners, The Early Years Movement Handbook: A Principles-Based Approach to Supporting Young Children’s Physical Development, Health and Wellbeing, London; Philadelphia, Pa.: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 209:
   • A whole garden of bright pillows to liven an entire room. What could be more cheerful than these flowers never seen before in any botanical guide? Make one—or a whole sofaful. 1976, “Appliquéd Felt Pillows”, in The Woman’s Day Book of Gifts to Make, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 161:
   • Zora, with a sofaful of railway time tables and ocean-steamer handbooks, sought his counsel as to a voyage round the world which she had in contemplation;[…] 1910 November 19, William J[ohn] Locke, “Septimus: Chapter VII”, in The Evening Star, number 18,315, Washington, D.C., part 2, page 8:
   • Increasing numbers of aging men will be mumbling about the times that used to be, the way I caught myself the other evening describing the pleasures of fly casting for weakfish, the vanishing sea trout, to a sofaful of young persons glassy-eyed with boredom. 1971 April 16, William A. Caldwell, “Simeon Stylites: The Dying Fish Story”, in The Record, volume 76, number 222, page A-18:
   • Today’s only guests were the governor’s aide, Lord Lumley, two other government representatives and a sofaful of foreign correspondents. 1956 March 26, “Silence Haunts Capital During Cyprus Curfew”, in Corpus Christi Caller, volume 74, number 56, Corpus Christi, Tex., page 10:
   • A SOFAFUL OF CHERUBS throws admiring looks at Elvis. 1960 October 10, “Rock-a-Bye Role for Presley”, in Life, volume 49, number 15, page 121:

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