"holeful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "hole + -ful",
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          "ref": "1956, Flannery O'Connor, “Greenleaf”, in The Kenyon Review, volume 18, number 3, page 408",
          "text": "At this very instant while she was recalling a lifetime of work, Mr. Greenleaf was loitering in the woods and Mrs. Greenleaf was probably flat on the ground, asleep over her holeful of clippings.",
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        {
          "ref": "1966, E. L. Doctorow, Big as Life, page 21",
          "text": "When Red and the professor got out to slide the heavy disk back into place they discovered a holeful of angry, baleful eyes looking up at them.",
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          "ref": "1988, Muriel Marshall, Red Hole in Time, page 240",
          "text": "One of the women was down washing clothes in that holeful of water.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, S. Dorman, Maine Metaphor: The Green and Blue House",
          "text": "Serene Pugwash Pond was a three acre holeful of water, having been formed in loose till by a chunk of ice left in the wake of receding glaciers.",
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        "As much as fills a hole."
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  "word": "holeful"
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  "etymology_text": "hole + -ful",
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          "ref": "1925, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, Strange Tales, page 18",
          "text": "When at last Mr. Alderman Flapp emerged, swathed in a comforter and in a flowing self-consciousness of equity, Mr. Flipp approached on the tips of his holeful boots, and whispered, \"I am the dirty crossing-man; are you the dirty crossing-boy?\" — and in another moment they were locked in each others' arms.",
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          "ref": "1989, Vidya Dehejia, Edward Lear, Allen Staley, Impossible Picturesqueness: Edward Lear's Indian Watercolours, 1873-1875, pages 66–67",
          "text": "Much of this squary-holeful architecture, seems to me clumsy and dwarfy, full of the defects of Egyptian buildings but wanting their grandeur.",
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          "ref": "1992, Writers Advisory Services International - Volume 3, Issue 3, page 81",
          "text": "A body covered by a holeful rag Shoots out an odour more unwelcome Than the one of cattle dung grund",
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        "Filled with holes; holey."
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          "text": "At this very instant while she was recalling a lifetime of work, Mr. Greenleaf was loitering in the woods and Mrs. Greenleaf was probably flat on the ground, asleep over her holeful of clippings.",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "When Red and the professor got out to slide the heavy disk back into place they discovered a holeful of angry, baleful eyes looking up at them.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1988, Muriel Marshall, Red Hole in Time, page 240",
          "text": "One of the women was down washing clothes in that holeful of water.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2014, S. Dorman, Maine Metaphor: The Green and Blue House",
          "text": "Serene Pugwash Pond was a three acre holeful of water, having been formed in loose till by a chunk of ice left in the wake of receding glaciers.",
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        "As much as fills a hole."
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          "ref": "1925, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, Strange Tales, page 18",
          "text": "When at last Mr. Alderman Flapp emerged, swathed in a comforter and in a flowing self-consciousness of equity, Mr. Flipp approached on the tips of his holeful boots, and whispered, \"I am the dirty crossing-man; are you the dirty crossing-boy?\" — and in another moment they were locked in each others' arms.",
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        {
          "ref": "1989, Vidya Dehejia, Edward Lear, Allen Staley, Impossible Picturesqueness: Edward Lear's Indian Watercolours, 1873-1875, pages 66–67",
          "text": "Much of this squary-holeful architecture, seems to me clumsy and dwarfy, full of the defects of Egyptian buildings but wanting their grandeur.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Writers Advisory Services International - Volume 3, Issue 3, page 81",
          "text": "A body covered by a holeful rag Shoots out an odour more unwelcome Than the one of cattle dung grund",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Filled with holes; holey."
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