lawnful

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noun

Enough to fill a lawn.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounlawnful (plural lawnfuls or lawnsful)

plural lawnfuls · plural lawnsful

  1. Enough to fill a lawn.

    We'll plant bulbs and things. A whole lawnful of daffodils.

    2012, Wendy Perriam, Born of Woman
    4 more examples

    He has wittily redone a tardy epithalamium and some nursery rhymes ("Three blind eunuchs"), and deftly catches the cozy lawnfuls of plastic dwarfs and flamingos, outside the kenneled people.

    1976, Choice - Volume 13, Issues 8-12, page 1300

    The alarm clock ticked below her head, on the ground, serenading her with its tick, tick, tick, accompanied by some nearby frogs and a lawnful of crickets.

    1986, Susan Marie, Never Bring Her Roses, page 72

    There was the detritus of untold communes and utopias— from the celibate Shakers, who'd died out through lack of breeding, to the wholly licentious latter-day acidheads who'd left behind nothing but their fleas and half-finished macramé plant hangers and lawnsful of broken major appliances.

    2014, Cornelia Read, The Crazy School, page 12

    Very early on the morning President Kennedy was to take off for Vienna to meet with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev June 3 and 4, 1961, a lawnful of Kennedy siblings massed on the compound for a prebreakfast game.

    2016, Triumph and Tragedy: The Story of the Kennedys' Early Years

Origin

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APA

lawnful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lawnful

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“lawnful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lawnful. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lawnful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lawnful.

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