pocketful
7
3.0
- noun
- /ˈpɑkɪtˌfʊl/
:
puñado
- After shopping, I walked home with a pocketful of change from the store.
- a pocketful of money
- a pocketful of cash
- a pocketful of rye
Examples
-
Five years ago, he walked in with holes in his shoes and a pocketful of dirty postcards.
-
By the fourth inning, he'd collected a pocketful of telephone numbers from witnesses.
Fiction book (2002) -
Well, he showed up here around the end of the war with a pocketful of money.
-
A pocketful of change falls on the floor.
Fiction book (1990) -
If you got a good car, a pocketful of money, and you're a young man...
-
I've got a pocketful of money burning a hole in my pocket...
-
When you come home from a networking event with a pocketful of business cards, a drawer isn't a good place to file them.
Blog text (28) -
This wouldn't be the first time Yoshitani left a top port job with a pocketful of cash.
Blog text (11) -
Most of the time, I'd come back with a pocketful of little bullets of lipstick named things like Tropical Ice and Tart Tangerine.
Fiction book (2000) -
One of the young monks produced a pocketful of leaves, sprouts of the weeds that had begun to emerge on the mountain slopes.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
26
1.0
An amount of something that fills a spoon
21
2.7
A small amount you can hold in a closed hand
4
1.8
An amount that fills a bucket
4
1.1
An amount that fills a bag, like apples or candies
2
4.4
An amount that fills a large suitcase or a car's storage space
1
3.2
An amount that fills a sack, like a large bag of apples
1
3.1
An amount of things that fills a drawer
1
2.8
An amount of earth or snow that fills a shovel
1
8.9
An amount of small items like coins that fills a small bag
1
2.2
An amount of something that fills a bowl
1
2.7
An amount that fills a truck
1
4.2
An amount you can hold in the palm of one hand
1
1.9
An amount that fills a pot
1
4.4
An amount that fills a pail
1
5.1
An amount of things that fills a chest
1
8.2
A load of things that fills a car
1
8.1
An amount large enough to fill a ship with goods or people
An amount of liquid that fills a bottle
The amount that fills a container
An amount that fills a carton like a milk box
An amount that a shoe can hold
Compounds
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word pocketful is built from the two parts pocket and -ful, where -ful means 'full of'. So a pocketful is an amount 'enough to fill a pocket', which is why we use it for a small amount that fits in your pocket.