lotful

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English

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Etymology

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From lot +‎ -ful.

Noun

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lotful (plural lotfuls or lotsful)

  1. Enough to fill a lot.
    • 1955 August 31, “Automobiles, For Sale 540”, in Spokane Daily Chronicle, 69th year, number 294, Spokane, Wash., page 36:
      2 LARGE LOTSFUL TO CHOOSE FROM
    • 1957 May 23, Mona Parker, “GISMO”, in Central City Republican-Nonpareil[1], volume 64, number 3, Central City, Neb.:
      People are much akin to some of these brilliantly festooned and highly polished, highly touted lotsful of used cars … They all look pretty much the same on the surface—but what a lot of duds beneath those shiny hoods!
    • 1990, Amy Clampitt, Westward, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf:
      A single seedling, camp-follower of arson — frothing bombed-out rubble with rose-purple lotfuls
    • 1994 April 24, “Cost of money rising, but pain isn’t acute yet”, in News Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, page 8F:
      Are showroom dealers lamenting over unsold lotsful of cars and trucks?