Meaning

2 senses
  1. The amount a sack will contain.

    A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would.

    the quantity contained in a sack

  2. (figuratively)A large number or amount (of something).

    1986, Hanif Kureishi, “Bradford” in Granta 20, Winter, 1986, p. 163, He received sackfuls of hate mail and few letters of support.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From sack (“bag”) + -ful.

From sack (“bag”) + -ful.

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Forms

plural: sackfuls / sacksful
Singularsackful
Pluralsackfuls / sacksful

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the quantity contained in a sack:sack

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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