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paddockful

noun

Etymology

From paddock + -ful.

  1. inherited from *bʰew-✻ — “to swell”
  2. inherited from *paddǭ✻ — “toad”
  3. inherited from *paddā✻
  4. inherited from *pada✻
  5. inherited from paddok
  6. formed as paddockful — “paddock + -ful”

Definitions

  1. As much as a paddock (field of grassland) will hold.

    • […] that fellow (the chief), his two brothers, and about a paddockful of young Samoan bucks haven’t slept at all for this two weeks.
    • I went down at sunrise and forked out their ensilage to a paddockful of sturdy young Angus bulls I am proud to think I bred.

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