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Definition of Trunkful
1. n. As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.
Definition of Trunkful
1. Noun. As much as a trunk will hold ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trunkful
1. as much as a trunk (a storage box) can hold [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trunkful
Literary usage of Trunkful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1906)
"Y ou see, here I 'm getting ready to go away to school with a whole trunkful of
new clothes; and now I 'm crying like a baby because a girl I don't like is ..."
2. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1836)
"trunkful after trunkful was abstracted, but still the lourd rhinoceros continued
to push the straw towards the place whence it disappeared: the twinkle in ..."
3. A Guide to Mythology by Helen Archibald Clarke (1908)
"As soon as we have broken that trunkful of needles, and used up that trunkful of
thread, that instant will death arrive!" Prince Ivan burst into tears and ..."
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