Londonful
English
Etymology
From London + -ful.
Noun
Londonful (plural not attested)
- (rare) Enough to fill London.
- 1905 April 5, “The Cosmopolitan”, in Boston Evening Transcript, page 22:
- Shakspeare, the noted dramatist, would have had not one but a Londonful of Boswells.
- 1924, A[lbert] E[rnest] Tomlinson, “Twilight of the Works”, in The Adelphi, page 205:
- An Art-School where both pupils and preceptor, students and dominie, are advanced, neurotic, unhealthy and unearthly, yet cleverer than a Londonful of critics; their work outlandish, malformed, trappu, their fruit diseased.
- 1998, P. J. O’Rourke, “How to Make Everything from Nothing: Hong Kong”, in Eat the Rich, Picador, →ISBN, page 209:
- Nearly a Londonful of individuals, supposed citizens of the realm that invented rights, equity, and the rule of law, got Christmas-goosed in July.
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