twigful
nounEtymology From twig + -ful.
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As much as a twig will hold.
- Broad shading elms and sugar maples kept foothold there, spreading sun-traced shadows or holding twigfuls of snow.1947, Ethel McCrossin Orr, Evelyn T. Holston, Reading Today (book 1, page 52)
- We had never seen anything like it and we had presence of mind to save several twigfuls of leaves, which proved to be the right food.1950, Animal Kingdom, volumes 53-55, page 117: