minuteful

English

Etymology 1

minute +‎ -ful

Noun

minuteful (plural minutefuls or minutesful)

1. Enough to last a minute.
   • 1890, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple Bar - Volume 90:

     ...and he has fought through each minute and its minuteful of pain (happily no minute can contain two minutefuls) during the seven months that have elapsed since we parted from him.

   • 1939, The Eagle's Quest: A Prince's Flight for Freedom, page 225:

     I scarcely slept a minuteful.

   • 2000, Sue Nevill, All You Expect of the Road, page 70:

     And you, imagining them weightless and adept, overcame their lonely gravity and gave them sixty minutesful of grace.

   • 2008, Irving Bacheller, D'ri and I, page 266:

     These things move slowly on paper, but the greeting was to me painfully short, there being of it not more than a minuteful, I should say.

Etymology 2

minute +‎ -ful

Adjective

minuteful (comparative more minuteful, superlative most minuteful)

1. Having extensive minutes.
   • 1900, Report on Geological Survey of the Western Area, Republic of Honduras:

     The UNDP and the government of the Republic of Honduras did systematic investigation works for ore deposits, for five years from 1969 to 1974, in total area of 10,800 km² in the northwestern part of the country, employing the methods of regional geological survey, geochemical exploration, local detailed geological survey, detailed geochemical exploration, geophysical exploration, pitting, trenching and diamond drilling, and selecting high potential areas for mineralization, recommended further detailed exploration in several areas as Chamelecon and Petoa, leaving the minuteful reports of geology and mineral deposits and the geological map of 1 to 50,000.The UNDP and the government of the Republic of Honduras did systematic investigation works for ore deposits, for five years from 1969 to 1974, in total area of 10,800 km² in the northwestern part of the country, employing the methods of regional geological survey, geochemical exploration, local detailed geological survey, detailed geochemical exploration, geophysical exploration, pitting, trenching and diamond drilling, and selecting high potential areas for mineralization, recommended further detailed exploration in several areas as Chamelecon and Petoa, leaving the minuteful reports of geology and mineral deposits and the geological map of 1 to 50,000.