flowerpot-ful

plural flowerpots-ful

1. rareRare form of flowerpotful.

   Every one has heard of the language of flowers, in which lack-a-daisical young ladies might talk sweet stuff by the flowerpot-ful for hours together; […]

   1851 May 16, “Miscellaneous”, in The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser, number 2499, Truro, page 7

   2 more examples

   It begins with a flowerpot-ful of water sousing a pretty lady below on the curb, and the young wife has her brought up at once to be dried out and warmed inside with hot tea.

   1927 July 26, “‘The Harem,’ Gay Vajda Farce, Opens Engagement at the Lurie: Isobel Elsom Is Starred in New Play”, in San Francisco Examiner, volume CXXVII, number 26, San Francisco, Calif., page 15

   Auditorium and stage were sheltered from the sun by a coloured canvas roof. A couple of flowerpots-ful of wheat played at being a cornfield in front of a plain backcloth. The piece was called Bucco the Peasant.

   [1949], Arthur Koestler, translated by Edith Simon, “Destruction of the Town Nola”, in The Gladiators, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, →OCLC, book 2 (The Law of Detours), page 116