dayful

plural dayfuls · plural daysful

1. The amount (of something) that fills or is produced in a day.

   I began asking my mom to write things down for me as I created poetry by the mouthful and the dayful.

   2006, Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter, Jennifer Smith Stepanek, Just Peace: A Message of Hope

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   Pure half hours in which people can really rest or really talk are worth whole dayfuls of words tossed out and never caught.

   1984, Lee Morical, Where's My Happy Ending?: Women and the Myth of Having It All

   Its aloneness corners on to mine, is quilted on, like land. It spreads open my warrened days by the dayful, all its seamless miles.

   2001, Medbh McGuckian, Drawing ballerinas, page 16

   I'd forgotten how naturally gregarious I am—living alone is pleasant in a way, but it's certainly much pleasanter at night by contrast with a dayful of people.

   2011, Lynne Reid Banks, The Backward Shadow, page 70

2. A tiring day.

   forget the simple difficulties/ and the long daysful/ do not speak or dream/ hear the near gulls scream

   2013, John Gallas, 52 Euros

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   Most of us, however, figuring that we had already had a dayful and that another dayful was but a few hours off, hastened to the waiting special cars of the Pacific Electric company and were taken back to the Alexandria.

   1926, Thomas H. Alvord, On the N.E.A. trip to the west coast, page 24

   But it was only one situation in a playful dayful where baby had to be entertained, not only for her own sake, but for the sake of the self-preservation of the family.

   1959, Loyd Rosenfield, Adam Had a Rib

comparative more dayful · superlative most dayful

1. poeticPertaining to daytime and a day's activities.

   They glitter the closemouths, psalmody the stones with suntastic steps of dayful ignition.

   1954, Saltire Review of Arts, Letters and Life - Issues 1-9, page 15

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   Three summers like any other three summers aren't they long and dayful with traintrips to the sea edge and free legs?

   2005, Jean-Michel Maulpoix, A Matter of Blue: Poems