cemeteryful
English
Etymology
cemetery + -ful
Noun
cemeteryful (plural cemeteryfuls)
- (rare, humorous) As much as a cemetery would hold.
- 1960, Walt Kelly, Pogo, January 22 comic strip (→ISBN, p. 113):
- [Albert:] In my time a whole cemeteryful of constituents could sweep you into office.
- 1978, Frederick Busch, The Mutual Friend, reprint, published 1994, →ISBN, page 114:
- Depend upon it, this place was built by a cemeteryful of old people, who, making a successful rise against death, have carried the place by assault, and, bringing their gravestones with them, have contrived to build the city, in which they are trying to look alive.
- 1960, Walt Kelly, Pogo, January 22 comic strip (→ISBN, p. 113):