shoulderful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
As much as a metaphoric shoulder can handle; a personal burden.
Example Sentences
- "As he walks down the hall to meet a group of businessmen, this corporate secret service uses code ling and the phones' two-way radio feature to head off potential snafus, such as toilet paper trailing from his wing tips and "snow on the mountains" (a shoulderful of dandruff), while he's unaware in a Mr. Magoo sort of way of the action surrounding him."
- "Before I could give him a brisk lecture about how making an effort for an hour could help his career no end, a large man with two shouldersful of bags hoved into view."
- "He could get a shoulderful of one-by-sixes off the lumber pile and carry them up to the cabin site."
- "She hefted two small packages, sighed with disgust, and shifted the lot in her arms, finding room for another shoulderful."
- "With a shoulderful of medals, he returns home after nine years, ready to put down his guns and find some kind of normalcy."
- "Don't travel on it then, she was told in the boarding house, or you'll find yourself jammed in, breathing shoulderfuls of damp tweed."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
shoulderfuls (plural)
shouldersful (plural)
more shoulderful (comparative)
most shoulderful (superlative)