shoeful
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]shoeful (plural shoefuls or shoesful)
- A quantity contained in or on a shoe.
- 2008, Gordon A. Donaldson, How leaders learn: cultivating capacities for school improvement, →ISBN:
- Others have very sensitive soles and can easily feel overwhelmed by what feels like a shoeful of pebbles.
- 2018, Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, →ISBN:
- One of the wounded men had a shoeful of blood.
- 2018, Robert Goddard, Panic Room, →ISBN:
- Blake jumped over a curve of the Bonython stream that cut across the beach. Don tried to follow her and ended up with a shoeful of water.