shoeful
nounEtymology From shoe + -ful.
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A quantity contained in or on a shoe.
- Others have very sensitive soles and can easily feel overwhelmed by what feels like a shoeful of pebbles.2008, Gordon A. Donaldson, How leaders learn: cultivating capacities for school improvement, →ISBN:
- One of the wounded men had a shoeful of blood.2018, Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, →ISBN:
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- Blake jumped over a curve of the Bonython stream that cut across the beach. Don tried to follow her and ended up with a shoeful of water.2018, Robert Goddard, Panic Room, →ISBN: