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Definition of Cram full
1. Adjective. Packed full to capacity. "Chowder chockablock with pieces of fish"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cram Full
Literary usage of Cram full
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Chinese and English Vocabulary in the Pekinese Dialect by George Carter Stent (1871)
"... to compress, ya'-^n' ^ ^ to oppress people. ya'-man3 ffi SS to cram full.
y0'-p'o4 ^ jj to crush. ya'-s4" ^ 5^ to crush to death. ..."
2. A Mandarin-Romanized Dictionary of Chinese: Including New Terms and Phrases by Donald MacGillivray (1921)
"... to crush (also 4). to cram full. burn papers at temple on a death. to ...
to suppress. to cram full (sai4 man3). to oppress, to subject. to subdue, ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"To fill with any kind of stuff or loose material ; cram full; load to excess;
crowd with something: as, to stuff the ears with cotton. If you will go, ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"f Crom-full [krom-ml-], adj. crammed full, full to repletion. Very often combined
with rom or join or both, eg, rom-jom-crmu- full = ram-jam-cram-full. ..."
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