pillowful

English

Etymology

From pillow +‎ -ful.

Noun

pillowful (plural pillowfuls or pillowsful)

1. Enough to fill a pillow.
   • 1936, Beverley Nichols, “Christ and War”, in The Fool Hath Said, Toronto, Ont.: Doubleday, Doran and Company (Canada) Ltd., page 221:

     Well, Mrs. Colonel’s Wife, there are some more white feathers for you to send. Indeed, now I come to think of it, you will need many pillowfuls.

   • 1971, Adrian Mitchell, Ride the Nightmare: Verse and Prose‎^[1], London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 26:

     If Mr Burley wants to be a miser, / Great, let the moneybags sway and clink for him, / Pay him a pillowful of best doubloons.

   • 1995, Southerly: The Magazine of the Australian English Association, Sydney‎^[2], page 57:

     […] to whirl like giant ceiling fans scattering pillowsful of atomic down; […]