paperful

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English

Etymology

From paper +‎ -ful.

Noun

paperful (plural paperfuls or papersful)

  1. Enough to fill a paper.
    • 1895, Charles Godfrey Leland, “Melodramnation”, in Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land, London: Adam and Charles Black, page 174:
      The parent had put pins by papersful, / Till she was like a frightful porcupine; []
    • 1965, Richard Gehman, The Had, New York, N.Y.: Trident Press, page 162:
      At various drugstores in such places as Purdy’s, Golden’s Bridge, Brewster, Croton Falls, Katonah and Mount Kisco, as well as Ridgefield, Scotts Corners, Pound Ridge and New Caanan, I bought about a ton of eye makeup, lipstick, powder, papersful of bobby pins, curlers (me! curlers!) and other tools for the conversion of Woman As Harper’s Bazaar Believes Her To Be.
    • 2019, Allie Pleiter, Wander Canyon Courtship, Harlequin, →ISBN:
      Yvonne scooped up two more paperfuls of flour by the time he returned with her broom and dustpan.