bagful

English

Etymology

From Middle English bage-ful, bage full, baggeful, bagg-ful; equivalent to bag +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈbæɡfʊɫ]

Noun

bagful (plural bagfuls or bagsful)

1. An amount; the contents of one full bag.

   She carried a bagful of groceries into the house.

2. A large assortment.

   The politician had a bagful of humorous anecdotes she could interject into any spur of the moment stump speech.

   • 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., published October 1970, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints):

     They each had, it seemed, a bagful of sermons often preached with great authority, and brought souls low before the altar—like so many ears of corn lopped off by the hired laborer in his daily work […]

Synonyms

• (amount of one bag): bag, sackful
• (large assortment): oodles, quantity, stockpile, scads

Translations

amount

• Catalan: sacada f
• Finnish: säkillinen, repullinen (fi), kassillinen
• Irish: lán mála m
• Welsh: cydaid f