stockingful
English
Etymology
stocking + -ful
Noun
stockingful (plural stockingfuls)
- the amount that can fit in a stocking
- 1907, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Merry-Garden and Other Stories:
- For, outside of a stockingful of guineas, all her capital was sunk in Merry-Garden, and all Merry-Garden hung now on the boy's life.
- 2005 December 9, Brian Nemtusak, “Screw X-Mas”, in Chicago Reader:
- More talent show than bona fide production, Sweetback Productions' stockingful of hit-or-miss fare would be most at home at a holiday party in an actor's apartment--an impression that the climb to a crow's-nest studio only amplifies.
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