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bedroomful

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Etymology

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From bedroom +‎ -ful.

Noun

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bedroomful (plural bedroomsful)

  1. Enough to fill a bedroom.
    • 1933 August 13, Helen Burke, “Kitchen Planning: Reducing Household Drudgery”, in Sunday Pictorial, number 961, London, page 24:
      Invariably, the sink would not have been satisfactory for a household of two, let alone the three to five bedroomsful.
    • 1957 March 31, “Songs, Comedy and Romance Is Combination for Movie”, in The Casper Tribune-Herald; Casper Morning Star, 66th year, number 44, Casper, Wyo., page 20:
      How this dilemma is resolved leads to ten thousand bedroomsful of love-and-laugh complications in involving Dewey Martin as a Texan pilot who also has fallen for Nina, Paul Henreid as an impoverished nobleman whom Ray “pays” to take Maria off his hands after he switches to Nina, and Lisa Gaye and Lisa Montell, the two eyefuls enacting the remaining sisters.
    • 1967 April 2, Carol Kleiman, “Malice amid the magnolias; Love Is Not a Safe Country: A novel by Paige Mitchell”, in Chicago Tribune, 120th year, number 92, Chicago, Ill., section 9 (Books Today), page 10:
      Characters by the bedroomsful make the scene and everyone in it.
    • 1968 January 15, Jean Tallman, “Turtles, Frogs, Raccoons, Too: Goldfish--and Chipmunk Stew!!”, in Des Moines Tribune, Des Moines, Iowa, page 10:
      He has built three bedroomsful of furniture, paneled the family room, made tables and grandfather clock for the living room, all of walnut from trees which he cut.
    • 1978 January 20, John Fitzgerald, “The voice of ‘Radio Sex’ doles out cheerful advice”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page 27:
      She is in a jovial mood; she knows that an hour earlier truck drivers, frustrated housewives, harried husbands, middle-aged gigolos, street cleaners, mistresses and bedroomsful of others have just caught her words of wisdom on her ‘Radio Sex’ program, the only one of its kind in Canada, on CJMS.
    • 1980 January 6, “A real sleeper of a sale, 40% to 70% off bedspreads and accessories”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 302, number 6, Philadelphia, Pa., page 4-B:
      We’ve bedrooms-ful of woven and quilted spreads, many with coordinating accessories in a wonderful assortment of sizes and colors.
    • 1995, Lois Braun, The Montreal Cats[1], Turnstone Press, →ISBN, page 29:
      Maybe Kenny still lived at home with his parents and bedroomsful of Slimp sisters that he watched through old gaping keyholes.