twigful

English

Etymology

twig +‎ -ful

Noun

twigful (plural twigfuls)

1. As much as a twig will hold.
   • 1947, Ethel McCrossin Orr, Evelyn T. Holston, Reading Today (book 1, page 52)

     Broad shading elms and sugar maples kept foothold there, spreading sun-traced shadows or holding twigfuls of snow.

   • 1950, Animal Kingdom, volumes 53-55, page 117:

     We had never seen anything like it and we had presence of mind to save several twigfuls of leaves, which proved to be the right food.