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summerful en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From summer + -ful.

Meanings

  1. Enough to fill or be produced by a summer.
    • Then suddenly he poured out from his throat Whole summerfuls of song in every note 1934, David Dodds Henry, William Vaughn Moody: A Study, page 98:
    • Perhaps a summerful of my pouting didn't appeal to them. 2005, Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God, page 74:
    • Some women even tried the solar cooker—a matter of some satisfaction, since a day's fuel needs of a tribal village burn away a summerful of solar-energy trapped in dry twigs. 1988, Indian Farming - Volume 38, page 4:
    • By their own account they keep pushing an increasingly corporate entertainment industry to do what scares it a little — and not just stick to a summerful of sequels and animated sure shots. 2008 May 4, Michael Cieply, “A Man of Steel With Feet of Clay”, in New York Times:
    • A suggestion from the post mistress in the western village of Cill Mhuirbhigh gave me the form of this contribution: since I seemed to have a hand for the drawing, an ear for the placenames and legs for the boreens, why should I not make a map of the islands, for which endless summersful of visitors would thank and pay me? 1986, Tim Robinson, Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage, page 11:

Forms

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summersful Number=Plur lexicographic
summerfuls Number=Plur lexicographic

summerful en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From summer + -ful.

Meanings

  1. Having or characteristic of summer; summery.
    • The summerless year 1927 is brought in as an example of their unutterable folly: that year was as summerful as any other year! 1926, The Sunspot - Volumes 12-16, page 5:
    • There was a moment of silence, as if the evening had turned suddenly dry, calm, summerful, and empty. 1949, Oscar De Liso, God's Thumb Down, page 254:
    • Summerful England, what lovelier, totally wholesomely lovely place is there to remember a totally, wholesomely lovely world. 2017, Irena Milloy, Another Pot of Coffee, page 126:

Forms

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more summerful Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most summerful Degree=Sup lexicographic