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The quantity a pocket will hold
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pocketful
Word definitions for pocketful in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quantity a pocket will hold
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quantity that a pocket would typically hold.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pocketful \Pock"et*ful\, n.; pl. Pocketfuls . As much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket; as, pocketfuls of chestnuts.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Eventually Balvinder handed over a pocketful of change and the healer gave him a small pot of white powder. ▪ It was a time when the builder carried a Filofax and the client a pocketful of nails. ▪ The wrong policy could cost ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from pocket (n.) + -ful .
Usage examples of pocketful.
He was a man in a grey suit with a pocketful of unfamiliar and rather despised credit cards.
She had no more idea of what she would do in Vittoria than any other place, but she still had a pocketful of pesos.
There is, disaster when it emerges that Tichy brought back with him a pocketful of strange dust.
He had three plants in plastic bags, a holo of some kind of ungulate, and a whole pocketful of rocks.
Even their terror did not prevent each of them, even Jankin, from scooping up a pocketful of baubles as he passed.
Later that same afternoon there was a' pifiata for the few little kids--some grandchildren, a pocketful of great-grandchildren--who had come, and, blindfolded, they pranced in circles swinging a wooden bat until the papier-mache donkey burst, and everyone cheered and clapped as the youngsters trampled each other scrambling for the glittering goodies.
Later that same afternoon there was a pinata for the few little kids--some grandchildren, a pocketful of great-grandchildren--who had come, and, blindfolded, they pranced in circles swinging a wooden bat until the papier-mache donkey burst, and everyone cheered and clapped as the youngsters trampled each other scrambling for the glittering goodies.
I bet he's got a pocketful of train ticket punchout confetti and Scott Joplin's peeled-off head, too.