canful
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]canful (plural canfuls or cansful)
- As much as a can will hold.
- 1966, Seamus Heaney, Blackberry-Picking:
- Once off the bush / The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. / I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair / That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. / Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.
Translations
[edit]as much as a can will hold
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