dayful

English

Etymology 1

From day +‎ -ful.

Noun

dayful (plural dayfuls or daysful)

The amount (of something) that fills or is produced in a day.
- 1984, Lee Morical, Where's My Happy Ending?: Women and the Myth of Having It All:
  Pure half hours in which people can really rest or really talk are worth whole dayfuls of words tossed out and never caught.
- 2001, Medbh McGuckian, Drawing ballerinas, page 16:
  Its aloneness corners on to mine, is quilted on, like land. It spreads open my warrened days by the dayful, all its seamless miles.
- 2006, Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter, Jennifer Smith Stepanek, Just Peace: A Message of Hope:
  I began asking my mom to write things down for me as I created poetry by the mouthful and the dayful.
- 2011, Lynne Reid Banks, The Backward Shadow, page 70:
  I'd forgotten how naturally gregarious I am—living alone is pleasant in a way, but it's certainly much pleasanter at night by contrast with a dayful of people.
A tiring day.
- 1926, Thomas H. Alvord, On the N.E.A. trip to the west coast, page 24:
  Most of us, however, figuring that we had already had a dayful and that another dayful was but a few hours off, hastened to the waiting special cars of the Pacific Electric company and were taken back to the Alexandria.
- 1959, Loyd Rosenfield, Adam Had a Rib:
  But it was only one situation in a playful dayful where baby had to be entertained, not only for her own sake, but for the sake of the self-preservation of the family.
- 2013, John Gallas, 52 Euros:
  forget the simple difficulties/ and the long daysful/ do not speak or dream/ hear the near gulls scream

Etymology 2

From day +‎ -ful.

Adjective

dayful (comparative more dayful, superlative most dayful)

(poetic) Pertaining to daytime and a day's activities.
- 1954, Saltire Review of Arts, Letters and Life - Issues 1-9, page 15:
  They glitter the closemouths, psalmody the stones with suntastic steps of dayful ignition.
- 2005, Jean-Michel Maulpoix, A Matter of Blue: Poems:
  Three summers like any other three summers aren't they long and dayful with traintrips to the sea edge and free legs?