Flowerpotful

Quick meaning: Flowerpotful is a noun meaning As much as a flowerpot will hold.

Meaning

As much as a flowerpot will hold.

Example Sentences

Mix about a 3½-inch (9 cm) flowerpotful of blood, fish and bone fertiliser with a barrow-load of compost.

The Prince of Monaco has offered his “Principality” to the Pope as a residence. It is very polite, yet it conveys no great amount of flattery to his Holiness to have this flowerpotful of land placed at his disposal.

Yes, the quantity should be by measure. Thus two parts loam and half a part […] may be two barrow loads, two flowerpot[-]fuls, or two handfuls of loam, and half a barrow load, half a potful, or half a handful of sand.

“Why, lawks, Mrs. Jones!” said a woman of the lower type of lodging-house keeper, as she stood on the gravel walk and spoke to a middle-aged female on the lawn, whose clothes were as gaily coloured as a parrot’s, and who wore a Gampian bonnet trimmed with a flowerpotful of cabbage roses and a plume of ostrich feathers;

Word Forms

• flowerpotfuls
• flowerpotsful
• flower-potful
• flowerpot-ful

Related Words

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