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pocketful
[ pok-it-fool ]
pocketful
/ ˈpɒkɪtfʊl /
noun
- as much as a pocket will hold
- informal.a large amount
it cost him a pocketful of money
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Spelling Note
See -ful.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pocketful1
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Example Sentences
Charley jingled a pocketful of pennies—Speckport pennies at that—as large as quoits.
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Visions of a pocketful of money haunted me almost day and night until we arrived on the battle field.
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There's never a stone on Pike Island, it's too swampy, and I'd forgot to bring my pocketful, as usual.
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You see, he'd got this money off the Jew and he counted on another pocketful from that Belcher woman.
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It was getting dark, and must have been about five o'clock, when I stopped and counted a pocketful of pennies.
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