counterful

English

Etymology

From counter +‎ -ful.

Noun

counterful (plural counterfuls or countersful)

1. Enough to fill a counter.
   • 1942, The Menorah Journal, page 219:

     It was quite different from the gay but cheap cups and saucers which he had picked up at a five-and-ten-cent store, with infinite care, to find a single good design among counterfuls of trash.

   • 2000, Karal Ann Marling, “Thinking of You at Christmas”, in Merry Christmas!: Celebrating America’s Greatest Holiday, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 305:

     It was too easy to blame the retailers for bringing Christmas into disrepute with countersful of “trashy things that no buyer in his senses would at any other time of the year even glance at.”

   • 2003, Andrew W. Saul, “Arthritis”, in Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works, Basic Health Publications, Inc., →ISBN, part one (Natural Healing Protocols), page 37:

     I recalled only the voice. It did not match this graceful woman, at ease and smiling, buying a counterful of vitamins.