Meanings
plural bagfuls · plural bagsful
- 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 & antonyms
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Origin
- Middle Englishbage-ful
- Englishbagful
From Middle English bage-ful, bage full, baggeful, bagg-ful; equivalent to bag + -ful.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan sacada
- sacadaamount
Finnish säkillinen, repullinen
- säkillinenamount
- repullinenamount
- kassillinenamount
Irish lán mála
- lán málaamount
Welsh cydaid
- cydaidamount
Cite this entry
bagful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bagful
“bagful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bagful. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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