bodyful

English

Etymology 1

From body +‎ -ful.

Adjective

bodyful (comparative more bodyful, superlative most bodyful)

1. Full of body; rich or substantive.
   • 1962, Candy and Snack Industry - Volume 118, page 79:

     Penford Low DE and Penford Regular corn syrups make a confection smooth, firm and bodyful, with moderate sweetness, minimum hygroscopicity...recommended for hard candies and chewy confections.

   • 1966, Edmond Souchon, The Second Line - Volumes 17-21, page 55:

     From then on Freddie began to know the importance of clean, crisp playing, and developed a big round bodyful tone.

   • 1971, TV Guide - Volume 19, page 27:

     You'll come out with beautiful, bodyful hair.

   • 1980, Cosmopolitan - Volume 189, page ix:

     Wella Balsam Deep Conditioner, however, is oil-free, leaves hair bouncy and bodyful.

2. Focused on the body; sensual or physically grounded.
   • 1991, Beatrix Pfleiderer, Gilles Bibeau, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin, Anthropologies of medicine:

     It is time also to investigate the 'bodyful body' and the 'bodyful mind', i.e., the way the mind and our world of culture are shaped and constituted by the 'lived-body', i.e., culture as emergent objectification of bodily experience.

   • 1993, Ruth Roach Pierson, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Paula Bourne, Canadian Women's Issues: Volume I: Strong Voices, →ISBN, page 152:

     Being real and whole and bodyful; turning pages, greeting women who are Hat and glossy, magazine-slim and dressed to kill budgets and men's eyes; breasts of a perfect no-size with hips to match; hands that spread wings and fly in colours like birds, and feet that perch and piont in heels and leather, or perfect pink and brown barefoot footprints in some Caribbean sand.

   • 2018, Christine Caldwell, Bodyfulness, →ISBN:

     What makes play a bodyful practice is doing it while consciously breathing, moving, sensing, and relating, as well as supporting ourselves to fully participate in positive states, particularly those we can share with others.

   • 2019, Walter S. Gershon, Sensuous Curriculum: Politics and the Senses in Education, →ISBN, page 30:

     They have written about how the role of art in classrooms generates “bodyful listening” (Weibe, 2011), how the history of museums historically guarded against touching physical objects, but holding and feeling an artifact actually helps museum-goers make sense of the world as well as feel and inspect their historical understandings (Wood & Latham, 2011), for example.

Etymology 2

From body +‎ -ful.

Noun

bodyful (plural bodyfuls or bodiesful)

1. As much as a body will hold.
   • 1966, Soviet Life - Issues 112-123:

     For a children's surgeon every case is a bodyful of riddles.

   • 1976, Dick and Rose Girling, John and Jackie Runeckles, Rick and Deidre Sanders, Would You Believe It, Doctor?, Coronet Books, published 1977, →ISBN, page 44:

     The British blood transfusion services dispense more than 163,250 entire bodiesful of blood every year.

   • 1988, Daphne Duval Harrison, Black pearls: blues queens of the 1920s, page 211:

     When Hunter went to Europe in 1927 she carried a bagful of know-how and a bodyful of nerve and verve.

   • 1988, Dipankar Roy, Time and Other Realities, page 13:

     I wake up from the bed that looks like a dreary dream, I walk slowly on the old and stained carpet, I hear my empty shoes move around in the closet, and then, they come out and follow me around all over my floor, I carry around my bodyful of rapidly poisoning blood.

   • 2009, Sue Palmer, 21st Century Boys, →ISBN:

     Mothers have three natural advantages that particularly fit them for the task: a close blood tie, a bodyful of maternal hormones and a natural female inclination to empathy.

   • 2011, William Giraldi, Busy Monsters: A Novel, →ISBN:

     I could not think of him on ice in the morgue, or in the hearse en route to the funeral home for a bodyful of ethanol and formaldehyde, because all I could see was my mother alone in that house, perhaps on the sofa knitting something no one would ever wear.

   • 2022, Sandra Newman, The Men:

     We barged against one another with the force of it, deafened in the smell of us, inhaling bodyfuls of perfume, sweat, booze, and a hint of pussy— […]