Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gloveful

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: glove-ful
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

As much as a glove can hold.

Example Sentences

"She could stand on a rocky surface, scoop up a gloveful of dirt, and explore extinct volcanoes and ancient canyons."
"[Abe] Roth stepped between the boys, the fans thinking he was going to stop the slaughter. He didn’t and [Nick] Peters threw in 15 glovesful that dropped [Orville] Drouillard for nine."
"On a clouting keynote the bout sprung underway, each man ripping across gloves[-]ful of punishment in neutral corners."
"But against Louis or any other first flight heavyweight? Not with two glovesful of cast iron shamrocks."
"[Klaus] Weisman picked up two glovesful of snow and whirled it into the air."
"Hundreds of earwigs and silverfish and slate-gray potato bugs scrambled in the glovesful of dirt I lifted from the pile and then sorted over a mayonnaise jar behind the back porch."

Etymology

From glove + -ful.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: glove

Inflected Forms

glovefuls (plural) glovesful (plural)

Questions

What does gloveful mean?: As much as a glove can hold.
Where does gloveful come from?: From glove + -ful.

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