"shirtful" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: shirtfuls [plural], shirtsful [plural]
Etymology: From shirt + -ful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|shirt|ful|pos=noun}} shirt + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun|s|shirtsful}} shirtful (plural shirtfuls or shirtsful)
  1. As much as is within, on, or held by a shirt.

Inflected forms

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        "1": "en",
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  "etymology_text": "From shirt + -ful.",
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          "ref": "1892, George T. Ulmer, Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer: A Drummer Boy From Maine:",
          "text": "I watched him until he disappeared from view, and then thought I would open up the treasure I had buried and deposit some of the shirtful which he had so kindly given me after I had robbed him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Dennis Schmitz, Eden: poems, page 22:",
          "text": "Cabrini Project kids bail it back with their hands, soak up shirtsful.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2002, Wilmoth Foreman, Summer of the Skunks, page 34:",
          "text": "Calvin lays the shirtful of skunk on the ground and holds it with his foot.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Ben Hewitt, Saved: How I Quit Worrying about Money and Became the Richest Guy in the World:",
          "text": "It was not quite enough time to tackle the wood-fired bathtub contraption, but it was plenty enough to motor up a long, winding hill to the north, where almost a year before we'd found hatfuls and shirtfuls of morel mushrooms with Erik's friend Breakfast.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2018, William Carleton, Willy Reilly, page 196:",
          "text": "Holy Moses, Mr. Reilly, but you had a narrow escape, Devil a man in the barony can handle a cudgel as I can, and it was a miracle, and you may thank his lordship here for it that you hadn't a shirtful of sore bones.",
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          "ref": "1892, George T. Ulmer, Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer: A Drummer Boy From Maine:",
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          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Dennis Schmitz, Eden: poems, page 22:",
          "text": "Cabrini Project kids bail it back with their hands, soak up shirtsful.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2002, Wilmoth Foreman, Summer of the Skunks, page 34:",
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        {
          "ref": "2013, Ben Hewitt, Saved: How I Quit Worrying about Money and Became the Richest Guy in the World:",
          "text": "It was not quite enough time to tackle the wood-fired bathtub contraption, but it was plenty enough to motor up a long, winding hill to the north, where almost a year before we'd found hatfuls and shirtfuls of morel mushrooms with Erik's friend Breakfast.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2018, William Carleton, Willy Reilly, page 196:",
          "text": "Holy Moses, Mr. Reilly, but you had a narrow escape, Devil a man in the barony can handle a cudgel as I can, and it was a miracle, and you may thank his lordship here for it that you hadn't a shirtful of sore bones.",
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