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English
Etymology
From stocking + -ful.
Noun
stockingful (plural stockingfuls or stockingsful)
- the amount that can fit in a stocking
1907, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Merry-Garden and Other Stories:For, outside of a stockingful of guineas, all her capital was sunk in Merry-Garden, and all Merry-Garden hung now on the boy's life.
1993, Tom Flynn, The Trouble with Christmas, page 47:On a very deep level, then, they are one: the pint-sized demon at your door Halloween night who (formally, at least) exchanges his or her forbearance from soaping your windows for a handful of candy, and the jolly old elf who is imagined to slither down the chimney and exchange a hurried snack for stockingsful of joy — or judgment.
2005 December 9, Brian Nemtusak, “Screw X-Mas”, in Chicago Reader:More talent show than bona fide production, Sweetback Productions' stockingful of hit-or-miss fare would be most at home at a holiday party in an actor's apartment--an impression that the climb to a crow's-nest studio only amplifies.