flockful

noun

flockful

noun

Etymology From flock + -ful.

1

The amount that constitutes a flock (of birds, people etc.).

  • A flockful of late-season tourists, animated and colorful, buzzing and warm, laden and anticipatory, was waiting to board the steamer or had just come out of it.1971, Everett S. Allen, This Quiet Place: A Cape Cod Chronicle, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, page 250:

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