pillowful

plural pillowfuls · plural pillowsful

1. Enough to fill a pillow.

   […]to whirl like giant ceiling fans scattering pillowsful of atomic down;[…]

   1995, Southerly: The Magazine of the Australian English Association, Sydney, page 57

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   Well, Mrs. Colonel’s Wife, there are some more white feathers for you to send. Indeed, now I come to think of it, you will need many pillowfuls.

   1936, Beverley Nichols, “Christ and War”, in The Fool Hath Said, Toronto, Ont.: Doubleday, Doran and Company (Canada) Ltd., page 221

   If Mr Burley wants to be a miser, / Great, let the moneybags sway and clink for him, / Pay him a pillowful of best doubloons.

   1971, Adrian Mitchell, Ride the Nightmare: Verse and Prose, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 26