shoeful

English

Etymology

shoe +‎ -ful

Noun

shoeful (plural shoefuls or shoesful)

  1. A quantity contained in or on a shoe.
    • 2008, Gordon A. Donaldson, How leaders learn: cultivating capacities for school improvement, →ISBN:
      Others have very sensitive soles and can easily feel overwhelmed by what feels like a shoeful of pebbles.
    • 2018, Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, →ISBN:
      One of the wounded men had a shoeful of blood.
    • 2018, Robert Goddard, Panic Room, →ISBN:
      Blake jumped over a curve of the Bonython stream that cut across the beach. Don tried to follow her and ended up with a shoeful of water.
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