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pocketful

[ pok-it-fool ]

noun

, plural pock·et·fuls.
  1. the amount that a pocket will hold.


pocketful

/ ˈpɒkɪtfʊl /

noun

  1. as much as a pocket will hold
  2. informal.
    a large amount

    it cost him a pocketful of money



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Spelling Note

See -ful.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pocketful1

First recorded in 1605–15; pocket + -ful

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Example Sentences

Charley jingled a pocketful of pennies—Speckport pennies at that—as large as quoits.

Visions of a pocketful of money haunted me almost day and night until we arrived on the battle field.

There's never a stone on Pike Island, it's too swampy, and I'd forgot to bring my pocketful, as usual.

You see, he'd got this money off the Jew and he counted on another pocketful from that Belcher woman.

It was getting dark, and must have been about five o'clock, when I stopped and counted a pocketful of pennies.

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