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handbagful

noun

Etymology

From handbag + -ful.

  1. derived from baggi
  2. inherited from bagge
  3. formed as handbag — “hand + bag”
  4. suffixed as handbagful — “handbag + ful”

Definitions

  1. As much as a handbag will hold.

    • One morning, when I had been only two years in the service, news came that Mr. Comrie had been found dead in his library, and that about a handbagful of gems was missing.
    • “I’m fucking hot,” says Sandra Bernhard in this month’s issue of Vanity Fair, as she poses in ostrich features and several handbagsful of costume jewellery for celebrity photographer Michel Comte.

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