omnibusful

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English

Etymology

From omnibus +‎ -ful.

Noun

omnibusful (plural omnibusfuls or omnibusesful)

  1. (dated) Enough to fill an omnibus.
    • 1842 August 20, “The Provinces”, in The Spectator, volume XV, number 738, page 800:
      An omnibusful of passengers, who happened to be present during the affray, suffered much alarm;
    • 1853 April 10, “Spring-time”, in The Era, volume XV, number 759, page 9:
      These gentlemen will be delivered by omnibusfuls at that strange Babel, Exeter Hall;
    • 1870, Charles Dickens, “Full Report of the Second Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything”, in R Shelton Mackenzie, Life of Charles Dickens. With Personal Recollections and Anecdotes;—Letters by ‘Boz,’ never before Published;—and Uncollected Papers in Prose and Verse., Philadelphia, Pa.: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, page 452:
      Four omnibusesful have just arrived upon the wharf, and all is bustle and activity.