bathroomful

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English

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Etymology

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From bathroom +‎ -ful.

Noun

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bathroomful (plural not attested)

  1. Enough to fill a bathroom.
    • 1908 November 8, The Gazette Times, volume 123, number 103, Pittsburgh, Pa., page one:
      Bathroomful of Gas Explodes as Door Opens
    • 1981, Tamas Aczel, Illuminations, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 59:
      [] somebody or something hiding behind her long face and lusterless skin—watching him (or anybody who would carelessly wander into their chaotic field of vision) with the lecherous nosiness of gossip-mongering neighbors: a bathroomful of eyes, a wild profusion of eyes, Erika’s furtive eyes.
    • 1988, Ann Ziety, “The Collected Experiences of Suzi Dishcloth”, in Storia 1, Pandora, published 1989, →ISBN, page 79:
      Suzi Dishcloth went home, and she took an eye-pencil / an ounce of laughter / some water from the fountains of Venus / some colours forged by the sun blazing through the trailing tiara of a burning meteorite / some jewels plucked from the coolest caverns / a bathroomful of toiletries / and she got herself ready, []