leapful

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

leap +‎ -ful

Adjective[edit]

leapful (comparative more leapful, superlative most leapful)

  1. Full of leaps: requiring one to leap or making many leaps.
    • 1753, Aaron Hill, Works - Volume 3, page 147:
      Pity ('tis true) revolves their leapful springs, Smil'd thanks, attoning pray'rs, embracing clings, Sallies of guileless joy, gay gleams offense, Soft stroking flatt'ries — active impotence ;
    • 1954, The Virginia Quarterly Review - Volume 30, page 530:
      O leapful look, assault of eye, hurdle the decorous delay.
    • 2004, The South Dakota Review, page 55:
      Bony rocks jut up from the water, forming a haphazard, leapful path, a path that looks like a twisted spine, to the bluff on the other side.