pillowful
English
Etymology
From pillow + -ful.
Noun
pillowful (plural pillowfuls or pillowsful)
- Enough to fill a pillow.
- 1936, Beverley Nichols, “Christ and War”, in The Fool Hath Said, Toronto, Ont.: Doubleday, Doran and Company (Canada) Ltd., page 221:
- Well, Mrs. Colonel’s Wife, there are some more white feathers for you to send. Indeed, now I come to think of it, you will need many pillowfuls.
- 1971, Adrian Mitchell, Ride the Nightmare: Verse and Prose, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 26:
- If Mr Burley wants to be a miser, / Great, let the moneybags sway and clink for him, / Pay him a pillowful of best doubloons.
- 1995, Southerly: The Magazine of the Australian English Association, Sydney, page 57:
- […] to whirl like giant ceiling fans scattering pillowsful of atomic down; […]
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