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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