"shirtful" meaning in English

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        "2": "shirt",
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  "etymology_text": "shirt + -ful",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shirtfuls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shirtsful",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1892, George T. Ulmer, Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer: A Drummer Boy From Maine",
          "text": "I watched him until he disappeared from view, and then thought I would open up the treasure I had buried and deposit some of the shirtful which he had so kindly given me after I had robbed him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Dennis Schmitz, Eden: poems, page 22",
          "text": "Cabrini Project kids bail it back with their hands, soak up shirtsful.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Wilmoth Foreman, Summer of the Skunks, page 34",
          "text": "Calvin lays the shirtful of skunk on the ground and holds it with his foot.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Ben Hewitt, Saved: How I Quit Worrying about Money and Became the Richest Guy in the World",
          "text": "It was not quite enough time to tackle the wood-fired bathtub contraption, but it was plenty enough to motor up a long, winding hill to the north, where almost a year before we'd found hatfuls and shirtfuls of morel mushrooms with Erik's friend Breakfast.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, William Carleton, Willy Reilly, page 196",
          "text": "Holy Moses, Mr. Reilly, but you had a narrow escape, Devil a man in the barony can handle a cudgel as I can, and it was a miracle, and you may thank his lordship here for it that you hadn't a shirtful of sore bones.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "As much as is within, on, or held by a shirt."
      ],
      "id": "en-shirtful-en-noun-1yBhm19H"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shirtful"
}

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        "3": "ful",
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "shirt + -ful",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shirtfuls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "shirtsful",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1892, George T. Ulmer, Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer: A Drummer Boy From Maine",
          "text": "I watched him until he disappeared from view, and then thought I would open up the treasure I had buried and deposit some of the shirtful which he had so kindly given me after I had robbed him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Dennis Schmitz, Eden: poems, page 22",
          "text": "Cabrini Project kids bail it back with their hands, soak up shirtsful.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Wilmoth Foreman, Summer of the Skunks, page 34",
          "text": "Calvin lays the shirtful of skunk on the ground and holds it with his foot.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Ben Hewitt, Saved: How I Quit Worrying about Money and Became the Richest Guy in the World",
          "text": "It was not quite enough time to tackle the wood-fired bathtub contraption, but it was plenty enough to motor up a long, winding hill to the north, where almost a year before we'd found hatfuls and shirtfuls of morel mushrooms with Erik's friend Breakfast.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, William Carleton, Willy Reilly, page 196",
          "text": "Holy Moses, Mr. Reilly, but you had a narrow escape, Devil a man in the barony can handle a cudgel as I can, and it was a miracle, and you may thank his lordship here for it that you hadn't a shirtful of sore bones.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "As much as is within, on, or held by a shirt."
      ]
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  "word": "shirtful"
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