"breastful" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: breastfuls [plural], breastsful [plural]
Etymology: From breast + -ful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|breast|ful|pos=noun}} breast + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun|+|breastsful}} breastful (plural breastfuls or breastsful)
  1. The amount that a breast will carry or hold.
    Sense id: en-breastful-en-noun-6brojlyo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns suffixed with -ful, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1900, Harrison S. Morris, In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV)",
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          "ref": "1906, Christina G. Rossetti, Poems",
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          "ref": "1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Human Chord",
          "text": "And again he inhaled a prodigious breastful of the mountain air. \"",
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        },
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          "ref": "1947, J. F. Hendry, Fernie Brae: A Scottish Childhood, Polygon Books, published 1987, page 21",
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