drainful

English

Etymology

drain +‎ -ful

Noun

drainful (plural drainfuls or drainsful)

1. Enough to fill a drain.
   • 1961, The Modern Hospital - Volume 96, page 90:

     Stop wasting talent by the drainful.

   • 2012, Gabrielle Hamilton, Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, page 36:

     On certain nights, she gave us baths and then hair washes and then dessert, sort of side by side, however many could fit, we knelt at the edge of the tub after we had bathed, leaning over a drainful of suds, just as we had waited in that same huddle every Christmas morning at the top of the stairs before being allowed down to see the tree and attack the pile.

   • 2013, Jack Lasenby, Uncle Trev and the Whistling Bull:

     Old Gotta hit that drainful of green cow-muck from such a height, the colour was driven through the pores and deep under his skin.