"packetful" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From packet + -ful.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "packetfuls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "packetsful",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "[1881], Mrs. Alfred Phillips, “A Registered Letter”, in Benedicta, London: Frederick Warne and Co., →OCLC, page 257",
          "text": "Benedicta called Harold into her room, leaving Meta without, a prey to envy at the preference thus shown; but a few kind words and a packetful of judiciously-bestowed chocolates pacified the soul and stomach of little Meta, who went to bed rejoicing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, May Theilgaard Watts, Reading the Landscape of Europe, Harper & Row, page 279",
          "text": "We had been told that commuters walking these sidewalks day after day, and mailmen, and bobbies, had scattered packetfuls of flower garden seeds and that those seeds had produced a gay display.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Sam Stewart, Payback, Pocket Books, page 193",
          "text": "He dropped a few packetsful of sugar on the desk and then sat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Enough to fill a packet."
      ],
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          "packet",
          "packet"
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  "word": "packetful"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From packet + -ful.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "packetfuls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "packetsful",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "[1881], Mrs. Alfred Phillips, “A Registered Letter”, in Benedicta, London: Frederick Warne and Co., →OCLC, page 257",
          "text": "Benedicta called Harold into her room, leaving Meta without, a prey to envy at the preference thus shown; but a few kind words and a packetful of judiciously-bestowed chocolates pacified the soul and stomach of little Meta, who went to bed rejoicing.",
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        {
          "ref": "1971, May Theilgaard Watts, Reading the Landscape of Europe, Harper & Row, page 279",
          "text": "We had been told that commuters walking these sidewalks day after day, and mailmen, and bobbies, had scattered packetfuls of flower garden seeds and that those seeds had produced a gay display.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Sam Stewart, Payback, Pocket Books, page 193",
          "text": "He dropped a few packetsful of sugar on the desk and then sat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Enough to fill a packet."
      ],
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        [
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  "word": "packetful"
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