innful

English

Etymology

From inn +‎ -ful.

Noun

innful (plural innfuls)

1. Enough to fill an inn.
   • 1846 August 8, “Railway Parcels”, in The Spectator. A Weekly Journal of News, Politics, Literature, and Science., volume the nineteenth, number 945, London: Joseph Clayton, page 757:

     Nay, hotel-keepers might make up parties, or rather parcels, and send whole innfuls of guests as “goods.”

   • 1989, Joyce Gilmore, The Erwinna Witches and Other Stories, Carlton, →ISBN, page 18:

     They would go straight to the Garden Room, amid the noise of an innful of diners, and hide in the hanging baskets.

   • 2006, Thomas Dormandy, “The age of the cathedrals”, in The Worst of Evils: The Fight Against Pain, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, part I (The Mists of History), page 80:

     His unsparing terminology would keep an innful of libel lawyers in funds today.