The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bookful
Bookful \Book"ful\, n.
As much as will fill a book; a book full.
--Shak. -- a.
Filled with book learning. [R.] ``The bookful blockhead.''
--Pope.
Wiktionary
bookful
Etymology 1 a. (context obsolete English) Full of book-knowledge; stuffed with ideas gleaned from books. Etymology 2
n. As much as a book holds.
Usage examples of "bookful".
I offered him a bookful, every variety of shape and color, at dawn and dusk, without tempting him.
Morris was here this morning, and just one squeeze of that long, yellow old hand of hers seemed to speak a bookful!
If I had offered him a speech or a bookful of learnin', he would have said, "Oh, forget it!
He had stolen billions of dollars and violated a bookful of criminal, financial, and commercial regulatory laws.