adj
Meaning 1
Intent on plunder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sackful
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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/ˈsæk.fʊl/
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noun
Meaning 2
The amount a sack will contain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sackload
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A large number or amount (of something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
- 1853, uncredited translators, German Popular Tales and Household Stories: Collected by the Brothers Grimm, New York: C.S. Francis, Volume I, 74. “The Fox and the Cat,” p. 381, [...] I understand a hundred arts, and have, moreover, a sackful of cunning!
- 1986, Hanif Kureishi, “Bradford” in Granta 20, Winter, 1986, p. 163, He received sackfuls of hate mail and few letters of support.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
the quantity contained in a sack
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sack
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: containerful
History
Etymology
From sack (verb) + -ful.
From sack (“bag”) + -ful.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: sacada — the amount a sack would contain
- Finnish: pussillinen — the amount a sack would contain
- Finnish: repullinen — the amount a sack would contain
- Finnish: säkillinen — the amount a sack would contain
- Hungarian: zsáknyi — the amount a sack would contain
- Irish: lán mála — the amount a sack would contain
- Irish: lán saic — the amount a sack would contain
- Italian: sacco — the amount a sack would contain
- Italian: saccata — the amount a sack would contain
- Norman: satchie — the amount a sack would contain
- Norman: pouquelée — the amount a sack would contain
- Norman: poutchie — the amount a sack would contain
- Plautdietsch: Sakvoll — the amount a sack would contain
- Welsh: cydaid — the amount a sack would contain