crawful

plural crawfuls · plural crawsful

1. As much (of something one dislikes) as one can accept.

   Would reckon you have had your crawful of this country by day or night."

   2010, Theodore V. Olsen, The Stalking Moon

   3 more examples

   1. Working conditions awful. 2. Wages unlawful. 3. Moses got his crawful.

   1950, Texas State CIO Council, Proceedings of the Annual Convention

   The senator forever "working on" getting us in to see Sam—the President—while we waited and waited and waited, until, one day, a crawful, I decided to go out there and see Sam myself at the Palace ...

   1993, Terrence Kilpatrick, Swimming Man Burning: A Rip-roaring Novel of the American West

   It is this view of themselves and of white women that makes the preference of a black man for a white woman quite a crawful.

   2002, Dawn Keetley, John Pettegrew, Public Women, Public Words: 1960 to the present, page 76

2. Enough to fill the craw.

   Then came the battle with the rooks, who will do anything for a crawful of maize.

   1960, John William Robertson Scott, The Countryman - Volume 57, page 309

   3 more examples

   She gulped down a crawful of food and stalked off, trying to devise a way to outwit her pursuers.

   1973, Charlotte Stevenson, The Stevenson reference book, page 147

   Buyers of same (Vonier, Beebe, Ken Smith) will invade "Gauer's Midnite Ron De Voo" with a steaming bagful and partake of the host's wonderful glass coffee-maker brew and sit around until late, their kissers mashing crawsful of prune and icing dough, handing Gauer a lot of bunk, playing chess, or discussing the assinities of the atomic age.

   1991, Harold Gauer, The History: War and peace in the 1940's, page 199

   I climb onto a dangling steel cable upon which groggy cormorants roost digesting crawfuls of contaminated gizzard shad.

   2006, Jean Lamore, AKA, page 399