owlful

comparative more owlful · superlative most owlful

1. literaryFull of owls.

   Impenetrable growth surrounds him. // Owlful. Batful. // Great moths of prey.

   1973, Thomas Kinsella, “The Clearing”, in Daniel Halpern, editor, Antæus, page 105

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   Mrs Adcock will invariably force you to take two, leaving you to stagger into the owlful night.

   1984, Punch, volume CCLXXXVI, number ii, page 67

   What // is that on the unmooned owlful slope, // the silver movement five yards west of your glance?

   2001, J. Allyn Rosser, Misery Prefigured, part three, “Rods and R.”, pages 40–41, lines 34–36