Noun: boatful
| Singular | boatful |
| Plural | boatfuls; boatsful |
Sample Sentences
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The city consumes boatfuls of fish every day.
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Often sponsored by publishers, the cruises, aboard commercial liners, feature popular authors who give readings and seminars -- even knitting lessons -- to boatfuls of book lovers. [2007 January 1, Amy Cortese, “At Sea With a Book to Read, and the Author of It, Too”, in New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like boatful
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 Middle English botefull, botfull, equivalent to boat + -ful. See: Middle English Nouns '
botefull'.