bagful

noun — 2 senses

bagful

noun

UK [ˈbæɡfʊɫ]

Etymology From Middle English bage-ful, bage full, baggeful, bagg-ful; equivalent to bag + -ful.

1

The amount that fills a bag.

  • She carried a bagful of groceries into the house.
2

A large assortment.

  • The politician had a bagful of humorous anecdotes she could interject into any spur of the moment stump speech.
  • They each had, it seemed, a bagful of sermons often preached with great authority, and brought souls low before the altar—like so many ears of corn lopped off by the hired laborer in his daily work […]1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., published October 1970, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints):
Synonyms
bag, sackful, oodles, quantity, stockpile, scads

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