Dayful

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The amount (of something) that fills or is produced in a day.

    "Pure half hours in which people can really rest or really talk are worth whole dayfuls of words tossed out and never caught."

  2. 2
    A tiring day.

    "Most of us, however, figuring that we had already had a dayful and that another dayful was but a few hours off, hastened to the waiting special cars of the Pacific Electric company and were taken back to the Alexandria."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to daytime and a day's activities. poetic

    "They glitter the closemouths, psalmody the stones with suntastic steps of dayful ignition."

Example

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"Pure half hours in which people can really rest or really talk are worth whole dayfuls of words tossed out and never caught."

Etymology

From day + -ful.

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