bagful
- noun
- /ˈbæɡfəl/
- My conversation with Alice had put me one up on my colleagues, so I was hustled out of the hospital with a bagful of pills as soon as the doctors could be persuaded to let me go.
- carry a bagful
- buy a bagful
- get a bagful
Examples
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An even earlier awakening the next morning took us to Nice airport before 7 a.m. in time for the flight back to Montreal with lots of wonderful memories and a bagful of great photos!
Academic text (1999) -
And they eat them by the bagful, just like potato chips.
Blog text (14) -
What if I could hand you a bagful of money right now?
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I carried a bagful of love
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Mark picked up a big bagful of fresh corn before we left the farm, and we took it and the fish back to town.
Fiction book (1993) -
It's a bagful of tragedy, that's what it is.
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There were many more bagfuls in Father's study.
Fiction book (1991) -
By the end of the week, she had a great bagful of rolls of black-and-white film, for it had been agreed that the only color picture in the birthday booklet would be the food shot.
Fiction book (1990) -
There's no better come-on for a mugging than a guy with a bagful of groceries.
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He brought a bagful of groceries home from the store.
Synonyms
The amount of something in one package used for selling or carrying it
A large bag made of paper, plastic or cloth for carrying things
As many things as fit in a basket
An amount that fills a sack, like a large bag of apples
An amount that fills a box
The amount that fills a container
An amount that fills a bin
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bagful is simply bag + -ful, where -ful means 'full of' or 'an amount of'. Like handful, the amount a hand can hold, bagful means as much as a bag can hold.