junkmail

plural junkmails

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of junk mail.

   He has knocked the pile of junkmail from the counter, and the catalogues have slipped under the table and lodged among triangles of shattered plate.

   2014, Sonya Hartnett, Golden Boys, Somerville, Mass.: Candlewick Press, published 2016, →ISBN, page 118

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   His inspiration and direction are supplied by a piece of junkmail many of us have received and most of us have ignored — that postcard that says if you act quickly you can have the story of your family name and a list of all Americans sharing it for a pre-publication price of $29.95.

   1996, Fred L. Gardaphé, “An ‘Amazing’ Debut: Bill Tonelli”, in Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer (Essay Series; 25), Toronto, Ont.: Guernica Editions Inc., →ISBN, page 214

   Does make me feel a bit feeble though, if mother is online and I’m not. I was on it but a company called GBH sent me 677 identical junkmails by mistake and have not been able to get any sense out of it since.

   1999, Helen Fielding, “[Jellyfish at Large] Wednesday 29 January”, in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 47