"armful" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɑːmfʊl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɑɹmˌfʊl/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-armful.wav [Received-Pronunciation], en-us-armful.mp3 [General-American] Forms: armfuls [plural], armsful [plural], armsfuls [plural]
Etymology: From arm + -ful (suffix forming nouns indicating as much as can be held by the noun to which it is attached). Etymology templates: {{glossary|noun}} noun, {{suffix|en|arm|ful|pos=noun|pos2=suffix forming nouns indicating as much as can be held by the noun to which it is attached}} arm + -ful (suffix forming nouns indicating as much as can be held by the noun to which it is attached) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|armsful|armsfuls}} armful (plural armfuls or armsful or armsfuls)
  1. The amount an arm or arms can hold. Wikipedia link: United States Army Synonyms: armfull [obsolete], armsful Translations (amount an arm or arms can hold): qucaq (Azerbaijani), бярэ́мя (bjarémja) [neuter] (Belarusian), хватка (hvatka) (Bulgarian), наръч (narǎč) (Bulgarian), braçat [masculine] (Catalan), braçada [feminine] (Catalan), (bào) (Chinese Mandarin), 滿懷的 (Chinese Mandarin), 满怀的 (mǎnhuái de) (Chinese Mandarin), armvol [masculine] (Dutch), sületäis (Estonian), sylillinen (Finnish), sylys (Finnish), brassée [feminine] (French), brazada [feminine] (Galician), Armvoll [masculine] (German), brakiedo (Ido), uchtán [masculine] (Irish), uchtóg [feminine] (Irish), bracciata [feminine] (Italian), łono [neuter] (Lower Sorbian), тэвэр (tever) (Mongolian), brachie [feminine] (Norman), braçat [masculine] (Occitan), naręcze [neuter] (Polish), braçada [feminine] (Portuguese), бере́мя (berémja) [archaic, neuter] (Russian), оха́пка (oxápka) [feminine] (Russian), ultach [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), brazado [masculine] (Spanish), galawad (Tagalog), обере́мок (oberémok) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

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          "ref": "1943 September, “Tokyo Bomber Hero is Italian Prisoner”, in George Starr Lasher, editor, The Rattle of Theta Chi, volume XXXII, number 1, Athens, Oh.: Theta Chi Fraternity, →OCLC, page 30, column 3",
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          "ref": "1856 August, “Aunt Becky’s Load of Wood”, in The United States Magazine, volume III, number 2, New York, N.Y.: J. M. Emerson & Co., →OCLC, pages 153–154",
          "text": "\"Oh, yes, yes, Mary; give Aunt Becky a few sticks of wood, so she can get through with her washing.\" / \"Well, how many sticks, father?\" / \"Oh, give her an armful; give her an armful, my child.\" / \"An armful, father? what, my armful or her armful?\" / \"Why her armful, of course, child.\" / \"Well, how big an armful? or how many sticks, father?\" / \"Why, my child, give her as much as she can carry in her arms.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1943 September, “Tokyo Bomber Hero is Italian Prisoner”, in George Starr Lasher, editor, The Rattle of Theta Chi, volume XXXII, number 1, Athens, Oh.: Theta Chi Fraternity, →OCLC, page 30, column 3",
          "text": "I left the plane with two armfuls of groceries, a gun, searchlight, and other things. It wasn't until I was 500 feet down that I realized the problem of pulling the ripcord with my arms full.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986 December, Adele Sarkissian, editor, Something About the Author (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought; Autobiography Series; 1), Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., page 66",
          "text": "When Vernon came in from work, he always brought me wildflowers he had found, an armsful of tiger lilies, bluebells, and white daisies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Film Culture, New York, N.Y.: Film Culture, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23",
          "text": "Naomi Levine made a movie wherein little kids swatted each other with armsfuls of huge white flowers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Aleks Sierz, Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre Today, London: Methuen Drama, A & C Black Publishers, page 212",
          "text": "At one point, a man who looks after lost property for London Transport asks himself what the ‘armfuls and armfuls’ of mislaid umbrellas say about Britain: ‘It says caution, it says preparation, it says pragmatism. Quiet, ordered lives in which nothing could be more distressing than to get rained on. The umbrella, the safety net of the nation’ [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The amount an arm or arms can hold."
      ],
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        [
          "amount",
          "amount#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "arm",
          "arm#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "hold",
          "hold#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "United States Army"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɑːmfʊl/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɑɹmˌfʊl/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ],
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    },
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      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ],
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    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "armfull"
    },
    {
      "word": "armsful"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "word": "qucaq"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "bjarémja",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "бярэ́мя"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "hvatka",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "word": "хватка"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "narǎč",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "word": "наръч"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "braçat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "braçada"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bào",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "word": "抱"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "word": "滿懷的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "mǎnhuái de",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "word": "满怀的"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "armvol"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "word": "sületäis"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "word": "sylillinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "word": "sylys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brassée"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brazada"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Armvoll"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "word": "brakiedo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "uchtán"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "uchtóg"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bracciata"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "tever",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "word": "тэвэр"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brachie"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "braçat"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "naręcze"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "braçada"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "berémja",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "бере́мя"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "oxápka",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "оха́пка"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ultach"
    },
    {
      "code": "dsb",
      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "łono"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "brazado"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "word": "galawad"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "oberémok",
      "sense": "amount an arm or arms can hold",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "обере́мок"
    }
  ],
  "word": "armful"
}

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