Meanings
- no pluralrareEnough to fill London.
Shakspeare, the noted dramatist, would have had not one but a Londonful of Boswells.
1905 April 5, “The Cosmopolitan”, in Boston Evening Transcript, page 222 more examples
An Art-School where both pupils and preceptor, students and dominie, are advanced, neurotic, unhealthy and unearthly, yet cleverer than a Londonful of critics; their work outlandish, malformed, trappu, their fruit diseased.
1924, A[lbert] E[rnest] Tomlinson, “Twilight of the Works”, in The Adelphi, page 205Nearly a Londonful of individuals, supposed citizens of the realm that invented rights, equity, and the rule of law, got Christmas-goosed in July.
1998, P. J. O’Rourke, “How to Make Everything from Nothing: Hong Kong”, in Eat the Rich, Picador, →ISBN, page 209
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Londonful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Londonful
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