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English
Etymology
From prison + -ful.
Noun
prisonful (plural prisonfuls or prisonsful)
- Enough to fill a prison.
1868 January 5, Humphry Sandwith, ““Unspoken Words.””, in The Daily News, number 6,764, London, published 7 January 1868, page 5:When we shall have, as suggested by “A Briton,” thus once for all degraded ourselves to the level of savages, we shall undoubtedly have on our hands a furious and open Irish insurrection, with an American war, and then possibly certain savage deeds in India, perpetrated while suppressing a real insurrection, might rise up against us, and teach us that even that affair might have been managed by fair fighting alone without suffocating prisonsful of sepoys, and murdering peasantry on the line of march.
1977 March 5, Greg Clark, “Traveling singer has inside message”, in Record Searchlight, volume 125, number 305, Redding, Calif., page 6:There have been prisonsful of similar dramas for Mrs. Peterson during her tours.
2011, Will Whitaker, The King’s Diamond, HarperPress, →ISBN, page 311:The officers, hoping to make their troops obey orders, massacred whole prisonfuls of captives.