Crossword clues for bagful
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bagful \bag"ful\ (b[a^]g"f[.u]l), n. The quantity that a bag will hold; as, he ate a bagful of popcorn.
Syn: bag.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, bagge-ful, from bag (n.) + -ful.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An amount; the contents of one full bag. 2 A large assortment.
WordNet
n. the quantity that a bag will hold; "he ate a large bag of popcorn" [syn: bag]
Usage examples of "bagful".
He decided he could become a mangosteen addict in no time and started back to buy a bagful.
They had been at each others throats since Sunday when Danny Alverez had disappeared into thin air, leaving behind a brandnew bike and a bagful of undelivered newspapers.
Rudolf Krebirz carrying a bagful of written information on French motorized transports and troop deployments around the Chinese frontier near Cao Bang.
No pretty girl was safe when he was in town, she said, and many a maid had slipped into the castle under the cloak of darkness and come out with a bagful of coins but a maid no more.
Someone had charmed a bagful of chocolate-raspberry cream puffs from the palace pastry chef.
We have bagfuls of them over in the feed shed to grind up as chaff but I use these here as one ingredient of my special decoction, my concentrated tonic.
All British jockeys riding abroad have enough trouble changing currency as it is: they would not leap at stealing bagfuls of something they could not readily spend.
All he wanted was to work hard and earn enough money to 205 buy his sister's freedom, but he was constantly thwarted by people who had money in bagfuls.
No banker, no official got out, just, improbably—three Corinthian spacers, one Sabrina, in her usual fancy-business, Tink, in his bar-crawling gear, down to the bare arms and the tattoos and the earrings, and of course his threadbare duffle and the bagfuls of edibles.
Relics by the binful, saints' bones by the bagful, a piece of the True Cross, bilge pump off the Ark-everything.
Relics by the binful, saints' bones by the bagful, a piece of the True Cross, bilge pump off the Ark — everything.
Earwig, I have a spell that will lead us to the cats, but in order to cast it, I need a bagful of a certain herbnepeta cataria.
Most pardoners, like this one, claimed to have come "straight from the court of Rome," with a bagful of pardons "al hoot" off the presses, though of course our Pardoner hasn't set foot outside England.