kennelful

English

Etymology

From kennel +‎ -ful.

Noun

kennelful (plural kennelfuls or kennelsful)

  1. As much as a kennel will hold.
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      "They all yelped, I remember, like a kennelful of puppies. It was their preposterous claim that I should read their hare-brained literature which caused me to display some little heat."
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