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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.
[book and full.] Full of notions gleaned from books; crowded with undigested learning.

Definition 2024


bookful

bookful

English

Adjective

bookful (comparative more bookful, superlative most bookful)

  1. (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.

Etymology 2

From book + -ful.

Noun

bookful (plural bookfuls or booksful)

  1. As much as a book holds.