jamful

English

Etymology

From jam +‎ -ful.

Adjective

jamful (comparative more jamful, superlative most jamful)

1. Full to capacity; jam-packed; chokka.
   • 1886, [Thomas Dunn English], “The Coming of the Peddler”, in Jacob Schuyler’s Millions, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], page 9:

     “He don’t sell cotton, mother—only books,” cried the eldest; “and oh! he’s got such a beautiful ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ jamful of pictures; […]”

   • 1919 March 22, Artillery and Trench Mortar Memories, 32nd Division, The Naval & Military Press Ltd in association with Firepower – The Royal Artillery Museum, published 2012, →ISBN, page 529:

     The place was jamful.

   • 1940 February 19, Life, page 58:

     YOUR BABY GETS SALLY’S OWN HOME-GROWN VEGETABLES… They’re big and plump and luscious—jamful of all the precious nourishment that scientific seed selection and careful growing could put into them.

   • 1947 November 18, Edward Flanders Ricketts, Renaissance Man of Cannery Row: The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts, Tuscaloosa, Ala., London: The University of Alabama Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 255:

     Regrettable you had so little time when you were here last, and the lab was so jamful (as usual).

   • 1953, Sybille Bedford, A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey, published 1986, page 280:

     There was another pause, and then came a dozen open cars jamful with ruffians in large hats, covered with fire-arms.

   • 1957, Richard [Pike] Bissell, Say, Darling, page 66:

     They were so sure of themselves, so alert, so jamful of ideas about character, motivation, sequences.

   • 1998, Ira Spring, Harvey Manning, Vicky Spring, Hiking the Great Northwest: 55 Great Trails in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Northern California, British Columbia, and the Canadian Rockies, 2nd edition, The Mountaineers, →ISBN, page 21:

     Still, though Wyoming suffers some of the worst tourist mobs and some of the most jamful trails, large portions of the backcountry are as purely lonesome as can be found in the old forty-eight.