topful

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English

Etymology

top +‎ -ful

Adjective

topful (comparative more topful, superlative most topful)

  1. Full to the top or brim.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Topful of direst cruelty.
    • (Can we date this quote by Isaac Watts and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      So topful of himself, that he let it spill on all the company.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for topful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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