cemeteryful

English

Etymology

cemetery +‎ -ful

Noun

cemeteryful (plural cemeteryfuls)

1. (rare, humorous) As much as a cemetery would hold.
   • 1960 January 22, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 113:

     [Albert:] In my time a whole cemeteryful of constituents could sweep you into office.

   • 1978, Frederick Busch, The Mutual Friend, reprint, published 1994, →ISBN, page 114:

     Depend upon it, this place was built by a cemeteryful of old people, who, making a successful rise against death, have carried the place by assault, and, bringing their gravestones with them, have contrived to build the city, in which they are trying to look alive.