paddockful
English
Noun
paddockful (plural paddockfuls)
- As many (of something) as a paddock (field of grassland) will hold.
- 1872, anonymous, “Jingling Geordie” in All the Year Round, Christmas 1872, p. 19,
- “I hear this mare of yours is a clipper; but I shall see what metal she has in her before an hour’s over.”
- “I tell you the truth, man. It is hard to part with her. My girl, Lizzie, is fond of her, and she is fond of Lizzie, and I allow I’d sooner you’d take all the paddockful than her.”
- 1896, Louis Becke, “At a Kava-Drinking” in The Ebbing of the Tide: South Sea Stories, Philadelphia: Lippincott, p. 67,
- […] that fellow (the chief), his two brothers, and about a paddockful of young Samoan bucks haven’t slept at all for this two weeks.
- 1970, Patrick White, The Vivisector, New York: Avon, 1980, Chapter 4, p. 168,
- 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.
- 1872, anonymous, “Jingling Geordie” in All the Year Round, Christmas 1872, p. 19,
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