bagfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: [ˈbæɡfʊɫ]

名詞

bagful (plural bagfuls or bagsful)

1. The amount that fills a bag.

   She carried a bagful of groceries into the house.

2. A large assortment.

   The politician had a bagful of humorous anecdotes she could interject into any spur of the moment stump speech.

   • 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., published October 1970, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints):

     They each had, it seemed, a bagful of sermons often preached with great authority, and brought souls low before the altar—like so many ears of corn lopped off by the hired laborer in his daily work […]

同意語

• (amount of one bag): bag, sackful
• (large assortment): oodles, quantity, stockpile, scads