canful

noun

Etymology

From can + -ful.

  1. inherited from *ǵneh₃-
  2. inherited from *kunnaną
  3. inherited from *kunnan
  4. inherited from cann
  5. inherited from can
  6. suffixed as canful — “can + ful

Definitions

  1. As much as a can will hold.

    • Once off the bush / The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. / I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair / That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. / Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for canful. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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