flowerpot-ful

See also: flowerpotful and flower-potful

English

Noun

flowerpot-ful (plural flowerpots-ful)

  1. Rare form of flowerpotful.
    • 1851 May 16, “Miscellaneous”, in The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser, number 2499, Truro, page 7:
      Every one has heard of the language of flowers, in which lack-a-daisical young ladies might talk sweet stuff by the flowerpot-ful for hours together; […]
    • 1927 July 26, “‘The Harem,’ Gay Vajda Farce, Opens Engagement at the Lurie: Isobel Elsom Is Starred in New Play”, in San Francisco Examiner, volume CXXVII, number 26, San Francisco, Calif., page 15:
      It begins with a flowerpot-ful of water sousing a pretty lady below on the curb, and the young wife has her brought up at once to be dried out and warmed inside with hot tea.
    • [1949], Arthur Koestler, translated by Edith Simon, “Destruction of the Town Nola”, in The Gladiators, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, →OCLC, book 2 (The Law of Detours), page 116:
      Auditorium and stage were sheltered from the sun by a coloured canvas roof. A couple of flowerpots-ful of wheat played at being a cornfield in front of a plain backcloth. The piece was called Bucco the Peasant.
      Originally (1939) flowerpots-full.
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