deskful

English

Etymology

desk +‎ -ful

Noun

deskful (plural deskfuls or desksful)

1. The amount that a desk will hold.
   • 1947, Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946: Proceedings:

     So far as you know, after Ribbentrop had received this deskful of complaints from the Vatican, which he neither read nor acknowledged, did Ribbentrop take any steps or do anything to find out whether those complaints were justified and true, or did he not?

   • 1974, Glen Love, Lucile Aly, Mildred Gilbertson, Plots and plans: structure for rhetoric, page 105:

     The main idea generates other ideas, which follow in natural order: He hated to go home because he knew he would have to face his nagging wife and a deskful of unpaid bills and his unruly children.

   • 2002, Bożena Shallcross, Framing the Polish Home:

     And why have so many pages, tons, desksful of pages, been written, if I can only babble as though I were the first to emerge from the loam onto the shores of the ocean?

   • 2006, Richard Benson, The Farm: The Story of One Family and the English Countryside:

     If you were to pull back further to see all of Europe you might find at the end of those roads bold new headquarters of chemical companies which employed deskfuls of economists to monitor subsidy payments and adjust pricing in accordance with any change in them, and laboratoryfuls of people working on genetic modifications which would allow their employers to patent seeds themselves.

   • 2013, E. F. Benson, As We Were - A Victorian Peep Show:

     Browning bounded in his chair, "Lyrics?" he said. “I've got deskfuls of them.”