monthful

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

month +‎ -ful

Noun[edit]

monthful (plural monthfuls or monthsful)

  1. A quantity that lasts or occurs throughout a month.
    • 1945, American Cookery - Volume 51, page 53:
      Here's a monthful of school day suggestions to add the flavor children like, the variety they need, the food value your Community School Lunch Program calls for.
    • 1960, Saturday Review - Volume 43, Part 3, page 34:
      Although Mr. Lippmann's views on foreign and national affairs are familiar to regular readers of his syndicated newspaper column, and also to those who follow his books, it was a considerable novelty to have the Lippmann perspective on a TV summit, as it were, ranging rapidly and broadly over the substance of a monthful of columns.
    • 1964, The Realist - Issues 48-70, page 19:
      I ran all the way from the Daily News Building, with two monthsful of funnies under my arm, to tell you what happened.
    • 2007, Frank S. Johnson, Sailing the Blue-Green Line:
      The following day, another in a monthful of perfect ones on the Keys, Emily and I had our own heart-to-heart communion.