weekful
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]weekful (plural weekfuls or weeksful)
- As much as occurs in a week.
- 1942, anonymous author, The Book of Ariel: A Novel, page 255:
- Three whole weekfuls. What a boring evening, darling!
- 1954, A Report of the Institute on Public Library Management:
- Other basic, foundational problems for discussion could perhaps be added but these several already afford a good two-weeksful and more.
- 1990, Daniel J. Casey, Linda M. Casey, Stories by Contemporary Irish Women, page 180:
- It tasted just like any other wine to Connie, even if it did cost as much as a weekful of breakfasts.
- 2002, Robert Harlow, Making Arrangements, page 23:
- This moment was the start of a weekful of events that tore like runaway horses through our lives and nearly made a hero out of Harry, even if all he was trying to do was set up a wager and Get Well, as they say at the track.
- 2014, Dee Walker, The Winner's Curse, page 219:
- That unleashed the flood of a weekful of rejection.