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thicketful

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English

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Etymology

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From thicket +‎ -ful.

Noun

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thicketful (plural thicketfuls or thicketsful)

  1. Enough to fill a thicket.
    a thicketful of brambles
    • 1837, A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory, volume 1, William MacGillivray, page 125:
      A brace of ptarmigan brought home after a day's hard marching [...] would afford more pleasure than a whole thicketful of pheasants.