shopful

English

Etymology

shop +‎ -ful

Noun

shopful (plural shopfuls or shopsful)

  1. The amount that a shop can hold.
    • 1893, Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne‎:
      Fresh butter, salt beef, anchovies, tunny, a shopful of Planchet's commodities, fowls, vegetables, salad, fish from the pond and the river, game from the forest--all the produce, in fact, of the province.
    • 1921, Harry Leon Wilson, The Wrong Twin‎:
      Nor did she mean to voice her wishes before a shopful of people who might consider them ambiguous.
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