canful

English

Etymology

From can +‎ -ful.

Noun

canful (plural canfuls or cansful)

1. As much as a can will hold.
   • 1966, Seamus Heaney, Blackberry-Picking

     Once off the bush / The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. / I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair / That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. / Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.

Translations

as much as a can will hold

• Irish: lán canna m, lán ceaintín m
• Norman: cannée f (Jersey)

Anagrams

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