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Webster 1913 Edition
Bookful
Book′ful
(boŏk′fụl)
, Noun.
As much as will fill a book; a book full.
Shak.
– Adj.
Filled with book learning.
[R.]
“The bookful blockhead.” Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bookful
BOOK'FUL
,Adj.
Definition 2024
bookful
bookful
English
Adjective
bookful (comparative more bookful, superlative most bookful)
- (obsolete) Full of book-knowledge; stuffed with ideas gleaned from books.
- 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticsm, XXXV:
- The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read, / With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head.
- 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticsm, XXXV:
Etymology 2
Noun
bookful (plural bookfuls or booksful)
- As much as a book holds.