leafful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of leaful.
Example Sentences
- "“And here goes too!” cried Abraham; and we both, without hesitating any longer, emptied our bowls to the bottom; and so pure and delicious was the water that we emptied half a dozen leavesful more, and never felt a bit afraid that it would hurt us;[…]"
- "[…]mulberries, served by leavesful, crushed with their own lusciousness;[…]"
- "When night came, and the village was quiet, some old woman brought me a leafful of rice."
- "How can one give any hint of the wonder of the bazaars, as we brush past the overhanging branches of the pipal tree, and long pugarees of many colours hanging on a line across the narrow ways to dry, the cook shops, with the appetising smell of frizzling meat, the bowls of boiling milk, the leavesful of strange confections of sugar and spice;[…]"
- "The lemonade was just sweet enough, and Janey drank two large leavesful."
- "So overcome was a large tree at the corner of Mayfield-road, Leicester, that it gulped in a few leavesful of reviving rain, and then sank slowly to the ground."
Etymology
From Middle English leful, leafful, lefful, from Old English lēaffull, ġelēafful (“believing, faithful, full of faith”), equivalent to leaf + -ful.