Noun: folderful
| Singular | folderful |
| Plural | folderfuls; foldersful |
Sample Sentences
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Ben Gordon slid the folderful of pamphlets on the Philosopher's Stone across his desk to Josef. [1980, Robert Taylor, Burchenal Green, Tales of the marvelous machine: 35 stories of computing, page 208:]
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Each of Shearson's business units generates a folderful of documentation a day: hundreds of journal entries, order tickets, wire transfers, cash sheets and other items. [1990, Datamation - Volume 36, Issues 1-8, page 61:]
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On the primary course, you create whole folderfuls of these paper-fillers, each individual task being incredibly straightforward but also annoyingly time-consuming. [2007, Jon Barbuti, Learning to Teach with a Hangover, →ISBN, page 153:]
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The whole point of local radio was to involve the community, to be its village hall, its notice board, its next-door neighbour — we had foldersful of corporation cliches about all this. [2010, Michael Buerk -, The Road Taken, →ISBN, page 98:]
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Control Panel provides a folderful of essential property sheets and helpful wizards. [1995, Craig Stinson, Running Microsoft Windows 95:]
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This Mac OS X capability to open a folderful of documents when a folder is selected in an Open dialog can be pretty scary when, from years of habit, you select a folder and hit the Open button to open the folder to look inside, and—whoops! [2006, Sharon Zardetto Aker, Real World Mac OS X Fonts, →ISBN:]
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I deleted all the other versions from my computer, dozens of foldersful, the result of nearly two years' work. [2008, Andy Kirkpatrick, Psychovertical, →ISBN, page 117:]
Nouns inflected like folderful
seaful,
kettleful,
pannikinful,
sipful,
beakful,
beltful,
chairful,
folderful,
momentful,
boatful,
bookful,
bootful,
cellarful,
bowlful,
morningful,
phoneful,
wheelbarrowful,
fingertipful,
barnful,
bathful, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From folder + -ful.