bookful
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
bookful (comparative more bookful, superlative most bookful)
- (obsolete) Full of book-knowledge; stuffed with ideas gleaned from books.
- 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, section XXXV:
- The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read, / With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bookful (plural bookfuls or booksful)
- As much as a book holds.