shopful

English

Etymology

From shop +‎ -ful.

Noun

shopful (plural shopfuls or shopsful)

1. The amount that a shop can hold.
   • 1893, Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne‎^[1]:

     Fresh butter, salt beef, anchovies, tunny, a shopful of Planchet's commodities, fowls, vegetables, salad, fish from the pond and the river, game from the forest--all the produce, in fact, of the province.

   • 1921, Harry Leon Wilson, The Wrong Twin‎^[2]:

     Nor did she mean to voice her wishes before a shopful of people who might consider them ambiguous.