browful
English
Etymology
brow + -ful
Noun
browful (plural browfuls)
- Enough to cover or fill the brow.
- 1946, The Chicago Theological Seminary Register:
- During these two decades I have lost most of my hair and gained a browful of wrinkles
- 1996, Robert DiChiara, Alibis, page 99:
- But even Rodman's quip had no effect on Howard's browful of thought.
- 1998, Eric Lee, Ill Conceived, page 6:
- "Gosh, I coulda had six V8s!" he said, grinning to himself, as he wiped a browful of sweat on a rumpled sleeve.
- 2011, Ian Watson, Lucky's Harvest: Mana:
- A browful of horns ripped through peagreen minty foliage.
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