What does stockingful mean?
Stockingful means the amount that can fit in a stocking.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
the amount that can fit in a stocking.
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.
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.
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.
Use stockingful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stockingful means the amount that can fit in a stocking.
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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.
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