morningful

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

morning +‎ -ful

Noun[edit]

morningful (plural morningfuls or morningsful)

  1. Enough to last all morning.
    • 1924, Fannie Hurst, Lummox, page 28:
      She scoured a whole morningful of pots that day.
    • 1978, The Romantist - Issues 1-5, page 26:
      I see morningfuls of sun, Fermenting sap inside the tree.
    • 2007, Timothy McKisson Mennel, Everything Must Go: A Novel of Robert Moses's New York:
      A morningful of Dev's abstractions was not Miles's recipe for conviviality.
    • 2010, John M. Daniel, Swimming in the Deep End:
      After two beers and a morningful of meetings, I was ready for a siesta, but when I got back to the Holiday Inn, I had to pass by the swimming pool on the way to my room, and there was Cissy lounging in a deck chair, applying suntan oil to her hard, flat belly.