sleeveful

English

Etymology

From sleeve +‎ -ful.

Noun

sleeveful (plural sleevefuls or sleevesful)

1. Enough to fill a sleeve.
   • 1921 July 10, “Seeing Redlands in Five Minutes”, in San Bernardino Daily Sun, volume XLIX, number 132, San Bernardino, Calif., page eleven:

     The pros are out strong with whole sleevesful of arguments and not a few stunts.

   • 1946 March 1, “Ben Simon & Sons: We’ve Something Up Our Sleeve!”, in Lincoln Evening Journal, Lincoln, Neb., page 9:

     Whole sleevesful of sly little tricks that work figure magic . . .

   • 1966 April 21, “Netter’s”, in Springfield Leader and Press, volume XXXIII, number 293, Springfield, Mo., page 5:

     He gives you a smooth long look with sleevesful of flowers, just for seasoning.

   • 2002 January 1, Vicki Woods, “The Chancellor’s baby has already cost me a tenner”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 45,582, page 20:

     I never saw a cross, or indifferent, or bad-tempered nurse, and never left the unit without sleevesful of damp Kleenex.

   • 2012, Joanne Sydney Lessner, chapter 15, in The Temporary Detective, New York, N.Y.: Dulcet Press, →ISBN, page 85:

     Paula had a secretary, and when Conchita had used up both sleevesful of tissues, she could finish the damn filing.