brimful
or brim·full
full to the brim.
Origin of brimful
1Other words from brimful
- brimfully, adverb
- brimfulness, brimfullness, noun
Words Nearby brimful
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How to use brimful in a sentence
LeBron’s championship chases are brimful of the most pivotal buckets in NBA postseason history, and not just his own.
Anthony Davis Was Key For The Lakers’ Title Run. He’s Also The Key To Their Future. | James L. Jackson | October 14, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightHe is small, alert, brimful of jokes and of years; seventy they say, but he neither looks it nor acts it.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonShe looked all about; the whole face of nature looked back, brimful of meaning, finger on lip, leaking its glad secret.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) WebsterThe characters are all brimful of wholesome human interest with Brenda as a paramount attraction.
Napoleon's Young Neighbor | Helen Leah ReedIn a Court like that of Whitehall, brimful of wit and malice, such a man was treated as a clown.
Court Beauties of Old Whitehall | W. R. H. Trowbridge
So saying, he filled him a brimful cup, which the coutelier drank off, and retired to do his patron's commission.
Quentin Durward | Sir Walter Scott
British Dictionary definitions for brimful
brimfull
/ (ˌbrɪmˈfʊl) /
(postpositive, foll by of) filled up to the brim (with)
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