maskful

English

Etymology

From mask +‎ -ful.

Noun

maskful (plural maskfuls or masksful)

1. As much as a mask holds.
   • 2002, Susanna Vance, Sights, page 11:

     That maskful of sleeping gas was worse than the poison, worse than death itself.

   • 2005, John Blaine, Rick Brant's Science Projects, page 53:

     The snorkels have automatic closing devices that usually work by gravity — which means little when a diver is upside down. A maskful of water isn't uncommon with these, but perhaps experience will show that you prefer one.

   • 2012, Ashraf Kagee, Khalil's Journey, page 2:

     And there he was, some thirty minutes later, being placed on a stretcher by a muscular young paramedic, getting treated to a maskful of delicious oxygen that made breathing downright fun, if a gent can have fun under these kinds of circumstances.

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