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armful

noun
/ˈɑɹmˌfəl/US/ˈɑːmfl̩/UK

Etymology

From arm + -ful (suffix forming nouns indicating as much as can be held by the noun to which it is attached).

  1. inherited from *h₂r̥mós✻
  2. inherited from *armaz✻
  3. inherited from *arm✻
  4. inherited from earm
  5. inherited from arm
  6. suffixed as armful — “arm + ful”

Definitions

  1. The amount an arm or arms can hold.

    • Upon this, by Conſent, the Doctors put a Good Armful of Warm Womans Fleſh into the Bed to him, [...]
    • [T]hough Pyrocles and Muſidorus at other times would diſpence with the length of the ſports, yet now, in reſpect of the armfuls of joys they were to expect in bed, they thought them tedious; [...]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA