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单词 cemeteryful
释义

cemeteryful

English

Etymology

cemetery + -ful

Noun

cemeteryful (plural cemeteryfuls)

  1. (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.
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