campful

English

Etymology

camp +‎ -ful

Noun

campful (plural campfuls or campsful)

1. A quantity that fills a camp.
   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

     Brighton, and a whole campful of soldiers to us, who have been overset already by one poor regiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton!

   • 1889, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke:

     I cannot bear to be carried in this plight, like a half-weaned infant, through your campful of grinning yokels.

   • 1949 March 25, Richard Kasischke, “Bulgaria Becomes Tightest Police State Outside Russia”, in The Kingston Daily Freeman, volume LXXVIII, number 134, Kingston, N.Y., page nine:

     However, there are a couple of campsful of Bulgarian refugees in Turkey and Americans who have visited them say the Turks treat the refugees well.

   • 2012, Kris Saknussemm, Sea Monkeys: A Memory Book, page 110:

     He pointed out that a campful of men alone in the woods can go a little loco sometimes.

   • 2014, John Brunner, The Crucible of Time:

     As we came in to land, I had a fine view of the campfuls of 'volunteers' outside the city. I gather they're proving more of a nuisance than a blessing.