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yearful en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From year + -ful.

Meanings

  1. The amount that occurs in a year; a year's worth (of something).
    • He had three yearsful of news to relate and in it all not a word of discouragement, but enthusiasm for what has already been done and plans for what is yet to be done. 1904, The Congregationalist and Christian World, page 882:
    • This is what I have been saying in these eight and twenty volumes of collected works and in this yearful of newspaper articles, and after a rest it is quite possible I shall go on saying it some more. 1924, H. G. Wells, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Forms

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yearfuls Number=Plur lexicographic
yearsful Number=Plur lexicographic

yearful en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From year + -ful. Compare Dutch bejaard (“having many years, elderly, aged”).

Meanings

  1. (rare) Full of years; elderly; aged.
    • Pity the yearful tree, green branches torn, fronting to-morrow's winds because it must. 1972, Outposts, page 29:
    • […] an encampment of these Sioux, com posed of nearly two hundred persons, of both sexes, and of different ages, from the yearful father of the chief, to his small grand-child, a pappoose of tender years. 1910, Harry H. Green, The Recognition of Jesse Badleigh, page 106:
    • […] but into the quiet haunts of the yearful ones ye cannot as yet hope for admission. 1907, The Nation, volume 1, page 929:

Forms

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most yearful Degree=Sup lexicographic
more yearful Degree=Cmp lexicographic