campful

plural campfuls · plural campsful

1. A quantity that fills a camp.

   He pointed out that a campful of men alone in the woods can go a little loco sometimes.

   2012, Kris Saknussemm, Sea Monkeys: A Memory Book, page 110

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   Brighton, and a whole campful of soldiers to us, who have been overset already by one poor regiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton!

   1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

   I cannot bear to be carried in this plight, like a half-weaned infant, through your campful of grinning yokels.

   1889, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke

   However, there are a couple of campsful of Bulgarian refugees in Turkey and Americans who have visited them say the Turks treat the refugees well.

   1949 March 25, Richard Kasischke, “Bulgaria Becomes Tightest Police State Outside Russia”, in The Kingston Daily Freeman, volume LXXVIII, number 134, Kingston, N.Y., page nine

   As we came in to land, I had a fine view of the campfuls of 'volunteers' outside the city. I gather they're proving more of a nuisance than a blessing.

   2014, John Brunner, The Crucible of Time