notebookful

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From notebook +‎ -ful.

Noun[edit]

notebookful (plural notebookfuls or notebooksful)

  1. Written notes that fill a notebook.
    • 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 116:
      The locomotive student got a notebookful of individualism in 1944 when Montreal delivered 20 U-1-f Mountains to Canadian National.
    • 1982, Feminary - Volume 12, Issue 1, page 113:
      I gathered notebooksful of statistics to prove that indeed babies were getting smaller, women were working harder, nonmilitary men were becoming superfluous, & the rich were going crazy with pleasure .
    • 2010, Rex Stout, Curtains for Three, page 93:
      In a drawer of my desk were two notebookfuls.
    • 2017, The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House[1], by James David Barber, Routledge, →ISBN:
      The trouble was that he very often said, with an air of resolute conviction, things that simply were not true. Reporters and opposing candidates collected the errors of Ronald Reagan by the notebookful.