denful

English

Etymology

From den +‎ -ful.

Noun

denful (plural denfuls)

1. Enough to fill a den.
   • 1920 October 16, The Literary Digest, volume LXVII, number 3 (whole 1591), New York, N.Y., page 39:

     It does not matter how much fuel is bought, nor how much heat is produced, unless you get the full benefit of it in the room where you want it. Sometimes you want a bathroomful and again a denful; the Perfection Oil Heater is the prompt and direct way to get it. The Perfection produces the heat on the spot.

   • 1962, Skip Weshner, The Travelers 3‎^[1]:

     The boys got up before this denful of wild beasts, and as usual, broke up the joint.

   • 1978, Joseph E. Garland, “Northeast of Boston”, in Boston’s North Shore: Being an Account of Life Among the Noteworthy, Fashionable, Wealthy, Eccentric and Ordinary, 1823-1890, Boston, Mass., Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page xiv:

     Besides Presidents, members of cabinet and Congress, and justices of the Supreme Court, there have been a few victorious and less than victorious generals, an embarrassment of ambassadors, some denfuls of literary lions, heirs and heiresses real and apparent, various princes and princesses of the blood, and one capital fellow who was a Knight of the Bathroom.

Anagrams

• endful, fluden