cemeteryful

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noun

As much as a cemetery would hold.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nouncemeteryful (plural cemeteryfuls)

plural cemeteryfuls

  1. 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 113
    1 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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