bagful

English

From bag +‎ -ful

bagful (plural bagfuls or bagsful)

An amount; the contents of one full bag.
She carried a bagful of groceries into the house.
A large assortment.
- 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Knopf, Part Two,
  They each had, it seemed, a bagful of sermons often preached with great authority, and brought souls low before the altar—like so many ears of corn lopped off by the hired laborer in his daily work […]
The politician had a bagful of humorous anecdotes she could interject into any spur of the moment stump speech.

amount

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