Meanings
plural cemeteryfuls
- humorousrareAs much as a cemetery would hold.
[Albert:] In my time a whole cemeteryful of constituents could sweep you into office.
1960 January 22, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 1131 more example
Depend upon it, this place was built by a cemeteryful of old people, who, making a successful rise against death, have carried the place by assault, and, bringing their gravestones with them, have contrived to build the city, in which they are trying to look alive.
1978, Frederick Busch, The Mutual Friend, reprint, published 1994, →ISBN, page 114
Origin
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