lawnful

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English

Etymology

From lawn +‎ -ful.

Noun

lawnful (plural lawnfuls or lawnsful)

  1. Enough to fill a lawn.
    • 1976, Choice - Volume 13, Issues 8-12, page 1300:
      He has wittily redone a tardy epithalamium and some nursery rhymes ("Three blind eunuchs"), and deftly catches the cozy lawnfuls of plastic dwarfs and flamingos, outside the kenneled people.
    • 1986, Susan Marie, Never Bring Her Roses, page 72:
      The alarm clock ticked below her head, on the ground, serenading her with its tick, tick, tick, accompanied by some nearby frogs and a lawnful of crickets.
    • 2012, Wendy Perriam, Born of Woman:
      We'll plant bulbs and things. A whole lawnful of daffodils.
    • 2014, Cornelia Read, The Crazy School, page 12:
      There was the detritus of untold communes and utopias— from the celibate Shakers, who'd died out through lack of breeding, to the wholly licentious latter-day acidheads who'd left behind nothing but their fleas and half-finished macramé plant hangers and lawnsful of broken major appliances.
    • 2016, Triumph and Tragedy: The Story of the Kennedys' Early Years:
      Very early on the morning President Kennedy was to take off for Vienna to meet with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev June 3 and 4, 1961, a lawnful of Kennedy siblings massed on the compound for a prebreakfast game.