单词 | bookful |
释义 | bookfuln. As much as fills a book; the entire contents of a book. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > [noun] > contents of bookful1600 tomeful1858 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. ii. 31 A whole booke full of these quondam carpet-mongers. View more context for this quotation 1720 C. Mather Christian Philosopher 47 The Fire on the Hearth will afford a whole Book-full of profitable Contemplations. 1835 Leigh Hunt's London Jrnl. 4 Mar. 71/2 The charming ballad of ‘Sally in our Alley,’..is worth a whole bookful of the rest. 1879 A. Bain Higher Eng. Gram. 80 A bookful of problems. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 56/2 (advt.) A bookful of help for the home decorator. 1994 Esquire June 72/2 I was scarcely aware of how this happened, but I poured it on, a bookful in just two years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bookfuladj. 1. Full of knowledge gathered from books. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [adjective] > acquainted merely with books bookish1566 book-learned1693 bookful1711 booksy1930 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 35 The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read, With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head. 1811 T. Pope Treat. Bridge Archit. 230 Two or three bookful theorists. 1856 Notes & Queries 31 July 86/1 The bookful Latinist. 1913 Amer. Forestry Nov. 719/1 Some fresh and impudent bookful graduate of a Forest school, who cannot tell a cypress from a yew. 2. Full of books. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > [adjective] > filled or lined with voluminous1690 book-lined1809 book-walled1822 book-bound1839 book-filled1855 bookful1896 volumed1897 1896 Literary World 7 Aug. 115/2 Coleridge, in this bookful age, is..getting to be more and more nominis umbra. 1904 Daily Chron. 3 Oct. 3/4 In bookful loneliness. 1920 G. S. Seymour Adventures with Bks. & Autographs 63 No really bookful library is complete..without its copy of the Autobiography of P. T. Barnum. 1989 R. M. Wilson Ripley Bogle (2000) 247 A cavernous room... Bookful and boundless. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1600adj.1711 |
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