bagful

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UK[ˈbæɡfʊɫ]

noun

The amount that fills a bag.

“She carried a bagful of groceries into the house.”

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Meanings

nounbagful (plural bagfuls or bagsful)

plural bagfuls · plural bagsful

  1. The amount that fills a bag.

    She carried a bagful of groceries into the house.

    Synonyms: bag, sackful

  2. A large assortment.

    The politician had a bagful of humorous anecdotes she could interject into any spur of the moment stump speech.

    1 more example

    They each had, it seemed, a bagful of sermons often preached with great authority, and brought souls low before the altar—like so many ears of corn lopped off by the hired laborer in his daily work […]

    1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., published October 1970, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints)

    Synonyms: oodles, quantity, stockpile, scads

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe amount that fills a bag.

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nounA large assortment.

More synonyms by meaning

nounthe quantity that a bag will hold

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Origin

  1. Middle Englishbage-ful
  2. Englishbagful

From Middle English bage-ful, bage full, baggeful, bagg-ful; equivalent to bag + -ful.

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Translations

Catalan sacada
  • sacadaamount
Finnish säkillinen, repullinen
  • säkillinenamount
  • repullinenamount
  • kassillinenamount
Irish lán mála
  • lán málaamount
Welsh cydaid
  • cydaidamount
Cite this entry
APA

bagful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bagful

MLA

“bagful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bagful. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bagful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bagful.

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