brimful
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of brimful
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He is impressed with Ms Forbes, describing her as "honest, straight, true and brimful of integrity".
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2023
Mark Twain wrote that “the pony-rider was usually a little bit of a man, brimful of spirit and endurance.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2022
"Their history is brimful of chivalrous acts toward weaker animals, cats in particular."
From Salon ● May 17, 2021
Sarr, brimful with confidence, meets the dropping ball and sends a volley towards the bottom left.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2019
Her dreams had been brimful with all the things she’d learned the day before—Adiah, the Shetani, the splendor, the truth about the Rupture.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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