packetful

plural packetfuls · plural packetsful

1. Enough to fill a packet.

   He dropped a few packetsful of sugar on the desk and then sat.

   1988, Sam Stewart, Payback, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 193

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   Benedicta called Harold into her room, leaving Meta without, a prey to envy at the preference thus shown; but a few kind words and a packetful of judiciously-bestowed chocolates pacified the soul and stomach of little Meta, who went to bed rejoicing.

   [1881], Mrs. Alfred Phillips, “A Registered Letter”, in Benedicta, London: Frederick Warne and Co., →OCLC, page 257

   We had been told that commuters walking these sidewalks day after day, and mailmen, and bobbies, had scattered packetfuls of flower garden seeds and that those seeds had produced a gay display.

   1971, May Theilgaard Watts, Reading the Landscape of Europe, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 279