parcelful

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From parcel +‎ -ful.

Noun[edit]

parcelful (plural parcelfuls)

  1. Enough to fill a parcel.
    • [c. 1900], Émile Zola, The Masterpieces of Emile Zola‎[1], Lutetian Society, page 149:
      As she liked books, he even thought of taking her a whole parcelful as a surprise—some that he had left in one of his trunks in the loft.
    • 1967, Swami Nityatmananda, D. P. Gupta, ‘M’—the Apostle and the Evangelist: A Continuation of M’s Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna‎[2], Civil Lines, Rohtak: Sri Ramakrishna—Sri Ma Prakashan, page 3:
      The bhaktas send parcelfuls of various eatables from Calcutta as offerings.
    • 2017, Chris Nickson, On Copper Street: A Tom Harper Mystery‎[3], Severn House Publishers, →ISBN:
      A parcelful of reasons.
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