shoeful

English

Etymology

shoe +‎ -ful

Noun

shoeful (plural shoefuls or shoesful)

1. A quantity contained in or on a shoe.
   • 2008, Gordon A. Donaldson, How leaders learn: cultivating capacities for school improvement, →ISBN:

     Others have very sensitive soles and can easily feel overwhelmed by what feels like a shoeful of pebbles.

   • 2018, Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, →ISBN:

     One of the wounded men had a shoeful of blood.

   • 2018, Robert Goddard, Panic Room, →ISBN:

     Blake jumped over a curve of the Bonython stream that cut across the beach. Don tried to follow her and ended up with a shoeful of water.