ringful
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]ringful (plural ringfuls or ringsful)
- The amount that fills or makes up a ring.
- 1937, Aberdeen-Angus Review - Issues 37-42, page 15:
- A very good opening was made with a class of ten aged bulls and they made quite an imposing "ringful."
- 1949, John Harold Johnson, Negro Digest - Volume 8, page 12:
- I saw a whole ringful of black clouds and this little ray of sunshine just couldn't penetrate them.
- 1979, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, The Gift, page 76:
- He looked at the round-shouldered, almost humpbacked figure of this unpleasantly quiet man whose mysteriously growing talent could have been checked only by a ringful of poison in a glass of wine— this all-comprehending man with whom he had never yet had a chance to have the good talk he dreamt of having some day and in whose presence he, writhing, burning and hopelessly summoning his own poems to come to his aid, felt himself a mere contemporary.
- 1979, Kate Simon, Mexico, places and pleasures, →ISBN, page 378:
- And he thrusts a ringful of dangling strips of leather into the cab.
- 1991, Robert Waller, The Almanac of British Politics, page 117:
- Bolton, an industrial town in the north-west sector of Greater Manchester's built-up sprawl, has long been identified with unglamorous grit; it is the home of Fred Dibnah, television's steeplejack, of a ringful of professional wrestlers, and the setting for Bill Naughton's treatment of working-class patriarchalism.
- 2008, Craig Glazer, The King of Sting: The Amazing True Story of a Modern American Outlaw, →ISBN:
- Another had jumped Don, who wrapped the leather strap around his hand and hit the biker in the face with his ringful of keys.
- 2012, Greg Cox, The Rings of Time, →ISBN:
- Time ticked by agonizingly, and he would have traded an entire ringful of dilithium crystals for one good laser solderer.
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ringful (comparative more ringful, superlative most ringful)
- Ringlike or pertaining to rings.
- 2013, John O'Loughlin, Literature and the Intercardinal Axial Compass, →ISBN:
- Let's face it: anyone with a ring in his ear and long hair is a kind of 'sonofabitch', even if his bike isn't unduly 'ringful', with spokes radiating out from a narrow hub.