walletful

English edit

Etymology edit

wallet +‎ -ful

Noun edit

walletful (plural walletfuls or walletsful)

The quantity contained in a wallet.
- 1653, John Davies (translator), The Extravagant Shepherd by Charles Sorel, London: Thomas Heath, Book 10, p. 244,^[1]
  I would have thee bring away with thee a Wallet-full of the Good thou shalt find, that thou mayst never more complain of being unhappy.
- 1859 April, “A Winter Journey”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 85, number 522, page 443:
  Ah, troubled human people, sweeping past, glad of the momentary level of the road, and with no leisure to linger, or to see how nature smiles out of her superior happiness at you and your walletful of cares!
- 1875, The New Testament. Translated from the Critical Text of Von Tischendorf; with an Introduction on the Criticism, Translation, and Interpretation of the Book, by Samuel Davidson, D.D. of Halle, and LL.D., London: Henry S. King & Co., page 75:
  And when the seven among the four thousand, how many walletsful of fragments ye took up?
- 1922, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in Northwest!‎^[2], New York: Frederick A. Stokes, page 4:
  […] when he won he did not go off with a walletful of his friends’ money.
- 1969, Philip Roth, “In Exile”, in Portnoy’s Complaint‎^[3], New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 244:
  The elderly couple seated beside me […] have told me in an hour’s flight time all about their children and grandchildren in Cincinnati (with, of course, a walletful of visual aids) […]
- 2002, James Robert Baker, Anarchy‎^[4], Los Angeles: Alyson Books, Part 2, p. 159:
  By mid morning I was in Madison, Wis. With $37 and a walletful of easily traced and therefore unusable credit and ATM cards.