boxful
nounEtymology From box + -ful.
1
As much as a box will hold.
- She […] had bought a new dress at Hollander’s and a boxful of toys for the children at Schwartz’s, and had dined once again with Agnes and had had her and Jimmy to dine at the Belmont one evening before a symphony concert.1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part III, Chapter II, page 284:
- Synonyms
- boxload
- Coordinate terms
- basketful, cabinetful, drawerful, shelfful