summerful
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]summerful (plural summerfuls or summersful)
- Enough to fill or be produced by a summer.
- 1934, David Dodds Henry, William Vaughn Moody: A Study, page 98:
- Then suddenly he poured out from his throat Whole summerfuls of song in every note
- 1986, Tim Robinson, Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage, page 11:
- A suggestion from the post mistress in the western village of Cill Mhuirbhigh gave me the form of this contribution: since I seemed to have a hand for the drawing, an ear for the placenames and legs for the boreens, why should I not make a map of the islands, for which endless summersful of visitors would thank and pay me?
- 1988, Indian Farming - Volume 38, page 4:
- Some women even tried the solar cooker—a matter of some satisfaction, since a day's fuel needs of a tribal village burn away a summerful of solar-energy trapped in dry twigs.
- 2005, Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God, page 74:
- Perhaps a summerful of my pouting didn't appeal to them.
- 2008 May 4, Michael Cieply, “A Man of Steel With Feet of Clay”, in New York Times[1]:
- By their own account they keep pushing an increasingly corporate entertainment industry to do what scares it a little — and not just stick to a summerful of sequels and animated sure shots.
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]summerful (comparative more summerful, superlative most summerful)
- Having or characteristic of summer; summery.
- 1926, The Sunspot - Volumes 12-16, page 5:
- The summerless year 1927 is brought in as an example of their unutterable folly: that year was as summerful as any other year!
- 1949, Oscar De Liso, God's Thumb Down, page 254:
- There was a moment of silence, as if the evening had turned suddenly dry, calm, summerful, and empty.
- 2017, Irena Milloy, Another Pot of Coffee, page 126:
- Summerful England, what lovelier, totally wholesomely lovely place is there to remember a totally, wholesomely lovely world.