pathful
English
Etymology
From path + -ful.
Noun
pathful (plural not attested)
- Enough to fill a path.
- 1960 July 18, “In the Rough”, in Sports Illustrated, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., page 27:
- The rough on this historic Scottish links is a tangled thicket of head-high shrubs called gorse, here growing so densely that it seems to swallow up a whole pathful of spectators walking between holes.
- 1983, Anthony C. Yu, translator and editor, The Journey to the West, volume 4, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 62:
- A pathful of strange blossoms vying for glamour; […].
- 1993, Đình Chương Ngô, My Version of Kieu, [San Jose, Calif.], OCLC 31806451, page 153:
- A pathful of tall reeds and grass
- 1993, The Bulletin, page 10:
- […] the “fight” is about on a par with a “battle” between an individual in hobnailed boots and a pathful of garden quails.
- 1996, Stephen Owen, editor and translator, “The Yuan and Ming Dynasties”, in An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, section “Tang Xian-zu, Peony Pavilion: Selected Acts”, subsection “Waking Suddenly from Dream (X)”, page 887:
- A whole pathful of fallen flowers go off down to the waters, this is the morning young Ruan Zhao reaches Mount Tian-tai.
- 2000, Jeanette Strack-Zanghi, “January 27, 2000”, in Soul Voices, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 27:
- Rainbows in heaven / Wise serpent hissing / Pathful of daisies / December winds.
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