bodyful

comparative more bodyful · superlative most bodyful

1. Full of body; rich or substantive.

   You'll come out with beautiful, bodyful hair.

   1971, TV Guide - Volume 19, page 27

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   Penford Low DE and Penford Regular corn syrups make a confection smooth, firm and bodyful, with moderate sweetness, minimum hygroscopicity...recommended for hard candies and chewy confections.

   1962, Candy and Snack Industry - Volume 118, page 79

   From then on Freddie began to know the importance of clean, crisp playing, and developed a big round bodyful tone.

   1966, Edmond Souchon, The Second Line - Volumes 17-21, page 55

   Wella Balsam Deep Conditioner, however, is oil-free, leaves hair bouncy and bodyful.

   1980, Cosmopolitan - Volume 189, page ix

2. Focused on the body; sensual or physically grounded.

   What makes play a bodyful practice is doing it while consciously breathing, moving, sensing, and relating, as well as supporting ourselves to fully participate in positive states, particularly those we can share with others.

   2018, Christine Caldwell, Bodyfulness, →ISBN

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   It is time also to investigate the 'bodyful body' and the 'bodyful mind', i.e., the way the mind and our world of culture are shaped and constituted by the 'lived-body', i.e., culture as emergent objectification of bodily experience.

   1991, Beatrix Pfleiderer, Gilles Bibeau, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin, Anthropologies of medicine

   Being real and whole and bodyful; turning pages, greeting women who are Hat and glossy, magazine-slim and dressed to kill budgets and men's eyes; breasts of a perfect no-size with hips to match; hands that spread wings and fly in colours like birds, and feet that perch and piont in heels and leather, or perfect pink and brown barefoot footprints in some Caribbean sand.

   1993, Ruth Roach Pierson, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Paula Bourne, Canadian Women's Issues: Volume I: Strong Voices, →ISBN, page 152

   They have written about how the role of art in classrooms generates “bodyful listening” (Weibe, 2011), how the history of museums historically guarded against touching physical objects, but holding and feeling an artifact actually helps museum-goers make sense of the world as well as feel and inspect their historical understandings (Wood & Latham, 2011), for example.

   2019, Walter S. Gershon, Sensuous Curriculum: Politics and the Senses in Education, →ISBN, page 30

plural bodyfuls · plural bodiesful

1. As much as a body will hold.

   For a children's surgeon every case is a bodyful of riddles.

   1966, Soviet Life - Issues 112-123

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   The British blood transfusion services dispense more than 163,250 entire bodiesful of blood every year.

   1976, Dick and Rose Girling, John and Jackie Runeckles, Rick and Deidre Sanders, Would You Believe It, Doctor?, Coronet Books, published 1977, →ISBN, page 44

   When Hunter went to Europe in 1927 she carried a bagful of know-how and a bodyful of nerve and verve.

   1988, Daphne Duval Harrison, Black pearls: blues queens of the 1920s, page 211

   I wake up from the bed that looks like a dreary dream, I walk slowly on the old and stained carpet, I hear my empty shoes move around in the closet, and then, they come out and follow me around all over my floor, I carry around my bodyful of rapidly poisoning blood.

   1988, Dipankar Roy, Time and Other Realities, page 13

   Mothers have three natural advantages that particularly fit them for the task: a close blood tie, a bodyful of maternal hormones and a natural female inclination to empathy.

   2009, Sue Palmer, 21st Century Boys, →ISBN

   I could not think of him on ice in the morgue, or in the hearse en route to the funeral home for a bodyful of ethanol and formaldehyde, because all I could see was my mother alone in that house, perhaps on the sofa knitting something no one would ever wear.

   2011, William Giraldi, Busy Monsters: A Novel, →ISBN