campful

noun

Etymology

From camp + -ful.

  1. inherited from *kampōn
  2. inherited from campian, compian
  3. inherited from campen
  4. derived from camp
  5. derived from can, camp
  6. derived from *kh₂em- — “to bend; crooked
  7. derived from campus
  8. inherited from *kamp
  9. inherited from camp
  10. inherited from kampe
  11. suffixed as campful — “camp + ful

Definitions

  1. A quantity that fills a camp.

    • Brighton, and a whole campful of soldiers to us, who have been overset already by one poor regiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton!
    • I cannot bear to be carried in this plight, like a half-weaned infant, through your campful of grinning yokels.
    • However, there are a couple of campsful of Bulgarian refugees in Turkey and Americans who have visited them say the Turks treat the refugees well.

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