winterful

plural winterfuls · plural wintersful

1. A quantity that lasts or is produced during a winter.

   Darkness everywhere, a whole winterful of it at his back.

   2006, Helen Dunmore, House of orphans, page 41

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   “Maybe it's just a little snow and not a whole winterful,” suggested Alice, as she climbed out of bed to look.

   1926, Clara Ingram Judson, Mary Jane's winter sports, page 14

   After a winterful of Germans, the Italians seemed gay, cheerful, and hard-working, though their war losses were bitter.

   1955, Marie Di Mario Wann, Dependent baggage; Destination Germany, page 121

   Every spring my mother would throw open the house like a cellar door, and a whole winterful of dust balls, grocery bills, and horehound drops would come rolling out to linger on the hollyhocks awhile and be caught at last in the handfuls of slick cottonwood fuzz that tumbled slowly eastward out of town.

   1959, Robert Hutchinson, “The Pear Tree”, in Southwest Review, volume 44, page 99

   He will find that if he goes to New York a week or so in the spring he may see the six or eight plays of the season which have been good enough to last that long, and that he may thus spare himself the suffering of attending a winterful of flops.

   1985, Rob Wagner, Anthony Slide, The Best of Rob Wagner's Script, page 39

comparative more winterful · superlative most winterful

1. Characteristic of or occurring during winter.

   Snow and more snow was here, was there, What a winterful, wonderful sight!

   1986, Bobbie Kalman, Susan Hughes, We Celebrate Winter, page 52

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   Here spreads a cosy net of little fields Secured with hedges, wild and winterful, Watching the year revolve.

   1978, Miscellaneous Series in Geography, page 12

   Snow is king in winterful Wisconsin, in the season of the year that is fast-becoming famous in the land of lakes and forests and great hills.

   1979, Art Huebner, Wonderful Wisconsin, page 299