What does sackful mean?
Sackful means The amount a sack will contain..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The amount a sack will contain..
A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would.
If I be not so rich, as to sowe almes by sackfulls, euen my Mite, is beyond the superfluity of wealth: and my pen, my tongue, and my life, shal (I hope) helpe some to better treasure, then the earth affoords them.
Potatoes were getting very scarce. If you got a sackful you could take them down to the cook-house and swap them for a water-bottleful of coffee.
You live until you die, and it doesn’t matter how you go; dead’s dead. So why carry on like a sackful of sick cats just because Herb Clutter got his throat cut?
1853, uncredited translators, German Popular Tales and Household Stories: Collected by the Brothers Grimm, New York: C.S. Francis, Volume I, 74. “The Fox and the Cat,” p. 381, […] I understand a hundred arts, and have, moreover, a sackful of cunning!
1986, Hanif Kureishi, “Bradford” in Granta 20, Winter, 1986, p. 163, He received sackfuls of hate mail and few letters of support.
what can the Pope say more for his sackfull of traditions?
[…] away we went home again fraught with a Sackful of news to tell our Master.
Use sackful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sackful means The amount a sack will contain..
Common synonyms include sackload, sack.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would.
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