stockingful

plural stockingfuls · plural stockingsful

1. the amount that can fit in a stocking

   For, outside of a stockingful of guineas, all her capital was sunk in Merry-Garden, and all Merry-Garden hung now on the boy's life.

   1907, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Merry-Garden and Other Stories

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   On a very deep level, then, they are one: the pint-sized demon at your door Halloween night who (formally, at least) exchanges his or her forbearance from soaping your windows for a handful of candy, and the jolly old elf who is imagined to slither down the chimney and exchange a hurried snack for stockingsful of joy — or judgment.

   1993, Tom Flynn, The Trouble with Christmas, page 47

   More talent show than bona fide production, Sweetback Productions' stockingful of hit-or-miss fare would be most at home at a holiday party in an actor's apartment--an impression that the climb to a crow's-nest studio only amplifies.

   2005 December 9, Brian Nemtusak, “Screw X-Mas”, in Chicago Reader