Meaning of dayful | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The amount (of something) that fills or is produced in a day.
2. A tiring day.

Examples

“Pure half hours in which people can really rest or really talk are worth whole dayfuls of words tossed out and never caught.”

“Its aloneness corners on to mine, is quilted on, like land. It spreads open my warrened days by the dayful, all its seamless miles.”

“I began asking my mom to write things down for me as I created poetry by the mouthful and the dayful.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“forget the simple difficulties/ and the long daysful/ do not speak or dream/ hear the near gulls scream”

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