Meaning

As much (of something one dislikes) as one can accept..

Definitions by Sense

1. As much (of something one dislikes) as one can accept.
2. Enough to fill the craw.

Example Sentences

1. Working conditions awful. 2. Wages unlawful. 3. Moses got his crawful.

The senator forever "working on" getting us in to see Sam—the President—while we waited and waited and waited, until, one day, a crawful, I decided to go out there and see Sam myself at the Palace ...

It is this view of themselves and of white women that makes the preference of a black man for a white woman quite a crawful.

Would reckon you have had your crawful of this country by day or night."

Then came the battle with the rooks, who will do anything for a crawful of maize.

She gulped down a crawful of food and stalked off, trying to devise a way to outwit her pursuers.

Buyers of same (Vonier, Beebe, Ken Smith) will invade "Gauer's Midnite Ron De Voo" with a steaming bagful and partake of the host's wonderful glass coffee-maker brew and sit around until late, their kissers mashing crawsful of prune and icing dough, handing Gauer a lot of bunk, playing chess, or discussing the assinities of the atomic age.

I climb onto a dangling steel cable upon which groggy cormorants roost digesting crawfuls of contaminated gizzard shad.

Word Forms

• crawfuls
• crawsful

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Use crawful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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