"hairful" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2010, Matt O'Keefe, You Think You Hear, page 196:",
          "text": "In appearance he is a hairful gnome, born to ghost the fringes of rock and roll culture.",
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          "ref": "2010, Peter Josyph, Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy, page 102:",
          "text": "As you can see, I am far less hairful than an ape.",
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        "Characterised by fullness of hair; hairy."
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          "ref": "1988, James Saunders, “The Making of a Marketing Man”, in Nightmare: Ernest Saunders and the Guinness Affair, Arrow Books, published 1990, →ISBN, page 29:",
          "text": "The cinema advertisements were spectacular, since local audiences seemed to be impressed by commercials only if they lasted at least two minutes and included stunning action shots, dashing men laden with hairfuls of Brylcreem, fast cars and sexy girls.",
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Jon Holmes, Rock Star Babylon:",
          "text": "Largely because you've now got a hairful of finely sprayed boiling hot musician's shit.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Cate Whetzel, The Bride at the Four Seasons Bar, page 45:",
          "text": "He growls to reach a necktie\nand dress for the table while she\nclimbs him, hairful by hairful.",
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          "ref": "2014, Kevin D. Randle, Target!:",
          "text": "He reached out, grabbed a hairful of hair, and pulled.",
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          "ref": "2019, James M. Campbell, One Night in the House of the Creepy Santas:",
          "text": "He'll scare you and stab you, and tear out a hairful!",
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        "The amount (of hair) typical in a head of hair."
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          "text": "As you can see, I am far less hairful than an ape.",
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        "Characterised by fullness of hair; hairy."
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          "text": "The cinema advertisements were spectacular, since local audiences seemed to be impressed by commercials only if they lasted at least two minutes and included stunning action shots, dashing men laden with hairfuls of Brylcreem, fast cars and sexy girls.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Jon Holmes, Rock Star Babylon:",
          "text": "Largely because you've now got a hairful of finely sprayed boiling hot musician's shit.",
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Cate Whetzel, The Bride at the Four Seasons Bar, page 45:",
          "text": "He growls to reach a necktie\nand dress for the table while she\nclimbs him, hairful by hairful.",
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        {
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          "text": "He reached out, grabbed a hairful of hair, and pulled.",
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          "text": "He'll scare you and stab you, and tear out a hairful!",
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        "The amount (of hair) typical in a head of hair."
      ]
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