shopful

[ shop-fool ]

noun

, plural shop·fuls.

1. the contents of a shop.
2. a quantity sufficient to fill a shop.

Spelling Note

See -ful.

Word History and Origins

Origin of shopful¹

First recorded in 1630–40; shop + -ful

Example Sentences

The jolt splintered the ice and sent glass-covered limbs clattering to earth like a shopful of shattering crystal.

From Literature

If a cannon had been fired close to her ear, or a shopful of glass had been broken, she could not have been more alarmed.

From Project Gutenberg

"Only don't blame me, my good Candace," said Grandpapa, laughing, whom the uproar had drawn out of his writing room, "if that monkey eats up all your shopful."

From Project Gutenberg

And oh, take my word for it, when a sacrifice has n't cost you a coach-load of regrets and a shopful of hesitations about making it, it is of little worth.

From Project Gutenberg

Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them: indeed, they are far more capable of betraying his trust; for whereas a face is given to us so far ready made, and all our power over it is in frowning, and laughing, and grimacing, during the first three or four decades of life, each umbrella is selected from a whole shopful, as being most consonant to the purchaser’s disposition.

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