compartmentful

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English

Etymology

compartment +‎ -ful

Noun

compartmentful (plural compartmentfuls or compartmentsful)

  1. A quantity sufficient to fill a compartment.
    • 1991, Kate Roberts, Joseph P. Clancy, The World of Kate Roberts: Selected Stories, 1925-1981, page 93:
      There they were, a train compartmentful, with their faces towards November Fair — what was left of it.
    • 2000, Angela K. Smith, Women's Writing of the First World War: An Anthology, page 68:
      He is clean and young and straight and far removed from the shadow procession I watch night after night, the procession that came to me early this morning and wakened me shrieking in the presence of a compartmentful of shocked strangers.
    • 2004, The Hungarian Quarterly - Issues 173-176, page 71:
      The revolving door metes out the aromas as two platinum-grey old dames totter in, rouged up to the eyeballs, expelling several door-compartmentsful of intense coffee aroma onto the street.
    • 2013, Thomas Berger, Being Invisible: A Novel:
      And the little compartmentful of cherry pie isn't bad.
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