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单词 pokeful
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pokefuln.

Brit. /ˈpəʊkfᵿl/, U.S. /ˈpoʊkˌfʊl/, Scottish English /ˈpokfəl/
Forms: see poke n.1 and -ful suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poke n.1, -ful suffix.
Etymology: < poke n.1 + -ful suffix.
Chiefly Scottish.
A bagful, a small sackful.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > bag or sack
bagfulc1305
pokefulc1400
sackful1484
budget-full1614
pouchful1699
rucksackful1920
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. viii. 175 A pokeful [c1400 C text x. 342 poke-ful; c1400 B text poke ful] of pardoun þere, ne þe prouincialis lettres.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (BL Add. 9066) (1879) 372 But bi the foxe are vndirstondyn vokettes, prelates of causes temporall..that han xviij en sleightes, and wiles passyng tho a pokefull.
1563 J. Davidson Answer to Tractiue Kennedy in D. Laing Misc. Wodrow Soc. (1844) I. 250 The vulgare interrogatione and the deif mannis answer..‘Quhow mony myle to Montrois?’ R. ‘Ane poikful of plombes.’
1575 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 91 Ifte bee not worth a pokefull of pence.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 125 b As farre dissentyng from the purpose of this Prophecie, as if he were demaunded the way to Canterbury, he might aunswere, a poake full of Plummes.
1634 in Trans. Dumfries & Galloway Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Soc. 20 37 Twa pokefulles of wool.
1698 in W. Hector Judicial Rec. Renfrewshire (1878) II. 150 Was found in thair houses ane pockfull of sheep bones.
1792 J. Little Poet. Wks. 168 But or they a' had got a turn The pokefu' nuts was ended.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ix. 201 After they had touzled out mony a leather poke-full o' papers, the town-clerk had his drap punch at e'en to wash the dust out of his throat.
1888 G. Sproat Rose o' Dalma Linn 228 She steyed at the place a hale dizzen year Till ance he had gethered a poukfu' o' gear.
1933 J. Leatham Season of Hope 108 When ye come back wi' a pyockfu o' gowd And a ‘kyte’ and a purple nose.
1992 E. Hoagland Up Black to Chalkyitsik in Balancing Acts 101 They figured that an old-time prospector coming downriver on a stern-wheeler must have lost his pokeful of gold overboard.
1996 Tampa Tribune (Florida) (Nexis) 5 July (Final ed.) (Baylife section) 2 Insiders said ‘Babe’ was a cinch to win a pokeful of prizes at the Australian awards later this month.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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