Stockingful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Stockingful is a noun meaning the amount that can fit in a stocking.
Meaning
the amount that can fit in a stocking.
Example Sentences
For, outside of a stockingful of guineas, all her capital was sunk in Merry-Garden, and all Merry-Garden hung now on the boy's life.
More talent show than bona fide production, Sweetback Productions' stockingful of hit-or-miss fare would be most at home at a holiday party in an actor's apartment--an impression that the climb to a crow's-nest studio only amplifies.
On a very deep level, then, they are one: the pint-sized demon at your door Halloween night who (formally, at least) exchanges his or her forbearance from soaping your windows for a handful of candy, and the jolly old elf who is imagined to slither down the chimney and exchange a hurried snack for stockingsful of joy — or judgment.
Word Forms
- stockingfuls
- stockingsful
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include toeful, pocketful, pannikinful, shoeboxful, porringerful, stickful.
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