Footful

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

An amount that can be picked up by one foot..

Definitions by Sense

1. An amount that can be picked up by one foot.
2. A quantity (of something) that covers the foot.
3. The amount of pressure that can be exerted by pressing with one foot.
4. A complete set of toes for one foot.
5. (humorous) A small number, about five.
6. (humorous) As much as one can handle, especially of something handled with one's feet.

Example Sentences

Mrs. Terrapin, having selected a place to her liking, moistens the hard clay, then alternately with the sharp claws of her hind feet, begins scraping out a hole about two inches across, lifting the moist earth, footful after footful.

Why should the owl treat the cuckoo thus? I have not the faintest idea. But she does, and once she clutched a footful of lavender feathers.

Often he would draw back one huge handful (or footful) of viney soil, only to leave it there while he looked and listened.

I well remember, in school on a winter's day, looking up and observing some boy or girl, with painful grimaces, surreptitiously caressing a footful of empurpled chilblains.

I slowed to a safer speed to avoid plunging into one of the tidepools and receiving a footful of spines.

“Poor Elizabeth,” he had teased gently, “smiling politely at all your admirers in the ballroom and secretly nursing two feetful of blisters."

A fast getaway with a real footful of throttle causes fierce wheelspin and decided judder from the rear axle, ...

You need footfuls of brake, differential power, everything you've got.

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• footfuls
• feetful

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