jamful
adjEtymology From jam + -ful.
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Full to capacity; jam-packed; chokka.
- “He don’t sell cotton, mother—only books,” cried the eldest; “and oh! he’s got such a beautiful ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ jamful of pictures;[…]”1886, [Thomas Dunn English], “The Coming of the Peddler”, in Jacob Schuyler’s Millions, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], page 9:
- The place was jamful.1919 March 22, Artillery and Trench Mortar Memories, 32nd Division, The Naval & Military Press Ltd in association with Firepower – The Royal Artillery Museum, published 2012, →ISBN, page 529:
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- YOUR BABY GETS SALLY’S OWN HOME-GROWN VEGETABLES… They’re big and plump and luscious—jamful of all the precious nourishment that scientific seed selection and careful growing could put into them.1940 February 19, Life, page 58:
- Regrettable you had so little time when you were here last, and the lab was so jamful (as usual).1947 November 18, Edward Flanders Ricketts, Renaissance Man of Cannery Row: The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; London: The University of Alabama Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 255:
- There was another pause, and then came a dozen open cars jamful with ruffians in large hats, covered with fire-arms.1953, Sybille Bedford, A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey, published 1986, page 280:
- They were so sure of themselves, so alert, so jamful of ideas about character, motivation, sequences.1957, Richard [Pike] Bissell, Say, Darling, page 66: