breezeful

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English

Etymology 1

From breeze +‎ -ful.

Adjective

breezeful (comparative more breezeful, superlative most breezeful)

  1. (uncommon) Having breezes.
    • 1817, John Shackleton, “Carric-thura”, in James Macpherson, transl., The Poems of Ossian, volume 1, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, page 226:
      Oft' in the mournful shade I sit
      Amidst the breezeful wind :
      And, by its sighs, their mem'ry lorn
      Comes rushing on my mind.
    • 1882, John J. Jennings, “Fishing for Free Puffs” (chapter XXI), in Theatrical and Circus Life; or, Secrets of the Stage, Green-room and Sawdust Arena, St. Louis: Sun Publishing Company, page 309:
      and there is a confusion of embroidery and white linen and silk hose that fills the eye of the man in the parquette with a flash of joy and causes a warm still wind to roll in a breezeful way around his cardiacal region.
    • 1906, Mattie Sampson Smith, “At the Picnic”, in Miss Claire's pupils, The National Baptist Publishing House, page 78:
      From exercising in the open air all that delightful, breezeful morning, their appetites became immensely whetted for a full enjoyment of the rich repast.

Etymology 2

From breeze +‎ -ful.

Noun

breezeful (plural breezefuls)

  1. (uncommon) An amount carried in a breeze.
    • 1968, David Pinner, chapter 9, in With My Body, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 70:
      Quickly she looked left and right, then left again, like doing her kerb drill. There was no one, only a breezeful of leaves and an empty Embassy cigarette packet in the gutter.
    • 1970 May , Annora Brown, “Old Man's Medicine Bag” (chapter V), in Old Man's Garden, Gray's Publishing, Mint, page 97:
      For if a cupful of mint tea or a spoonful of mint jelly is a tonic for frayed nerves, how much more powerful its curative properties would be if mixed with a skyful of sunshine and floating clouds and a breezeful of woodsy scents.
    • 1970, Margaret Cosgrove, “Journey to the Two-sex Way” (chapter 4), in Seeds, Embryos, and Sex, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., page 25:
      One tree could let loose a whole breezeful of millions, even billions, of spores.
    • 1972, chapter VI, in Alice Curtayne, editor, Francis Ledwidge: A life of the poet (1887-191), London: Martin Brian and O'Keeffe, page 115:
      Over the border of the dawn
      Far as the blue Atlantic sky,
      The white birds of the sea go on
      In breezefuls, wailing as they fly.
    • 2003, Mongo, “The Demon Drive” (chapter 13), in America's Keenest City,  ]">…], page 270:
      She coughed as a breezeful of dust came in from the window.
    • 2014 September, Donna Cooner, Can't Look Away, Point, page 263:
      He squeezes onto the metal bleacher beside me and I catch a breezeful of his cinnamony smell.