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pocketful

/pok-it-fool/US // ˈpɒk ɪtˌfʊl //UK // (ˈpɒkɪtfʊl) //

袖珍,袖珍的,袖珍型,囊中羞涩

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pock·et·fuls.

    • : the amount that a pocket will hold.

Examples

  • When you head out in winter, bring a thermos and a pocketful of chocolate, dried fruit, or other quick-energy snacks.

  • Charley jingled a pocketful of pennies—Speckport pennies at that—as large as quoits.

  • Visions of a pocketful of money haunted me almost day and night until we arrived on the battle field.

  • There's never a stone on Pike Island, it's too swampy, and I'd forgot to bring my pocketful, as usual.

  • You see, he'd got this money off the Jew and he counted on another pocketful from that Belcher woman.

  • It was getting dark, and must have been about five o'clock, when I stopped and counted a pocketful of pennies.