"lawnful" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: lawnfuls [plural], lawnsful [plural]
Etymology: lawn + -ful Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|lawn|ful|pos=noun}} lawn + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun|s|lawnsful}} lawnful (plural lawnfuls or lawnsful)
  1. Enough to fill a lawn.
    Sense id: en-lawnful-en-noun-z5KRdGm8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English nouns suffixed with -ful

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for lawnful meaning in English (2.2kB)

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          "ref": "1976, Choice - Volume 13, Issues 8-12, page 1300",
          "text": "He has wittily redone a tardy epithalamium and some nursery rhymes (\"Three blind eunuchs\"), and deftly catches the cozy lawnfuls of plastic dwarfs and flamingos, outside the kenneled people.",
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          "ref": "1986, Susan Marie, Never Bring Her Roses, page 72",
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          "text": "We'll plant bulbs and things. A whole lawnful of daffodils.",
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          "ref": "2014, Cornelia Read, The Crazy School, page 12",
          "text": "There was the detritus of untold communes and utopias— from the celibate Shakers, who'd died out through lack of breeding, to the wholly licentious latter-day acidheads who'd left behind nothing but their fleas and half-finished macramé plant hangers and lawnsful of broken major appliances.",
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          "ref": "2016, Triumph and Tragedy: The Story of the Kennedys' Early Years",
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