Dustpanful
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Enough to fill a dustpan.
"If he have cunning and greed enough, the workhouse boy sent out to sweep an office may learn how to sweep money by the dustpan[-]ful out of his neighbours’ tills, may learn to be a famous “operator” in the money market, and to die in the blessed assurance that he is bequeathing a plum to his heirs."
- 2 the quantity that a dustpan will hold wordnet
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More examples"If he have cunning and greed enough, the workhouse boy sent out to sweep an office may learn how to sweep money by the dustpan[-]ful out of his neighbours’ tills, may learn to be a famous “operator” in the money market, and to die in the blessed assurance that he is bequeathing a plum to his heirs."
Etymology
From dustpan + -ful.
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