shopfuln.
/ˈʃɒpfʊl/, U.S. /ˈʃɑpˌfʊl/ As much or as many as a shop will hold. Hence: a very large amount or number.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a building
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churchful1779
stableful1834
officeful1845
warehouseful1859
coteful1865
1613 T. Adams White Deuil 29 It is a maske for treason, whose shop-full of poisons, pistols, daggers, gunpowder-traines, would easilie be spied out, had hypocrisie left them bare-faced.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 231 Concerning the perfumes..I could wish you would bring me a shopfull.
1710 W. Brown Impiety & Superstition Expos'd 20 The Pardon-pedler, Brandish'd strait a whole Shop-full of Curses, at the Robbers Soul.
1765 tr. Mme de Sévigné Lett. VIII. dlix. 39 A rascally surgeon at Paris, after having made him swallow a shop-full of medicines, assured him, that he is perfectly cured.
1838 Caledonian Mercury 11 June The common sense view of the matter was, that if a person had a shopful of papers, which he sold for profit, he was a tradesman.
1868 Chambers's Jrnl. 22 Aug. 543/1 There would be no difficulty in her purchasing a sewing-machine—or seven shopfuls of them, if such was her pleasure.
1901 Spectator 12 Oct. 510/2 One ‘shopful’ of customers may complete their purchases..before another is admitted.
1921 Hearst's Internat. July 20/1 Silk dresses—shopfuls of them!
1988 H. Mantel Eight Months on Ghazzah Street 58 They bought cassette tapes; cheap copies, pirated in Asia and imported by the shopful.
2014 N. Mukherjee Lives of Others 296 She showed up wearing what seemed like a shopful of heavy ceremonial jewellery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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