释义 |
pocketful|ˈpɒkɪtfʊl| [f. pocket n. + -ful.] As much (of anything) as fills a pocket.
1611Cotgr., Pochée, a pocket-full, poke-full, sack-full, of. 1718–19Arbuthnot Let. Swift Misc. Wks. 1751 II. 120 Formerly, when you had Wit in Pocket-fulls, and no Money. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xiii, A whole pocketful of money. 1866Livingstone Last Jrnls. (1873) I. ii. 35 They are sitting eating the pocketfuls of corn maize they have stolen. |