parcelful

English

Etymology

From parcel +‎ -ful.

Noun

parcelful (plural parcelfuls)

1. Enough to fill a parcel.
   • [c. 1900], Émile Zola, The Masterpieces of Emile Zola‎^[1], Lutetian Society, page 149:

     As she liked books, he even thought of taking her a whole parcelful as a surprise—some that he had left in one of his trunks in the loft.

   • 1967, Swami Nityatmananda, D. P. Gupta, ‘M’—the Apostle and the Evangelist: A Continuation of M’s Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna‎^[2], Civil Lines, Rohtak: Sri Ramakrishna—Sri Ma Prakashan, page 3:

     The bhaktas send parcelfuls of various eatables from Calcutta as offerings.

   • 2017, Chris Nickson, On Copper Street: A Tom Harper Mystery‎^[3], Severn House Publishers, →ISBN:

     A parcelful of reasons.