sprayful

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English

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Etymology

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From spray +‎ -ful.

Adjective

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sprayful (comparative more sprayful, superlative most sprayful)

  1. (poetic) Full of spray; spraying.
    • 1850, Thomas Eyre Poole, Life, Scenery and Customs in Sierra Leone and the Gambia, page 255:
      Lofty mountains, in parts inaccessible, down whose fertile sides roll the cataract's noisy yet harmonious waters, leaping in sprayful sport over the rocks which cross its course, or sweeping in sheets of sparkling foam []