Meaning of footful | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An amount that can be picked up by one foot.
2. A quantity (of something) that covers the foot.
3. The amount of pressure that can be exerted by pressing with one foot.
4. A complete set of toes for one foot.
5. A small number, about five.
   humorous
6. As much as one can handle, especially of something handled with one's feet.
   humorous

Examples

“Mrs. Terrapin, having selected a place to her liking, moistens the hard clay, then alternately with the sharp claws of her hind feet, begins scraping out a hole about two inches across, lifting the moist earth, footful after footful.”

“Why should the owl treat the cuckoo thus? I have not the faintest idea. But she does, and once she clutched a footful of lavender feathers.”

“Often he would draw back one huge handful (or footful) of viney soil, only to leave it there while he looked and listened.”

“I well remember, in school on a winter's day, looking up and observing some boy or girl, with painful grimaces, surreptitiously caressing a footful of empurpled chilblains.”

“I slowed to a safer speed to avoid plunging into one of the tidepools and receiving a footful of spines.”

““Poor Elizabeth,” he had teased gently, “smiling politely at all your admirers in the ballroom and secretly nursing two feetful of blisters."”

“A fast getaway with a real footful of throttle causes fierce wheelspin and decided judder from the rear axle, ...”

“You need footfuls of brake, differential power, everything you've got.”

“A footful of brake pressure can slam the front wheel down with enough force to jam it right through the baggage”

“Then I lifted out my leg with a fine footful of toes”

“Mabob dashed after it and, before the whompem hit the ground, Mabob had sunk a footful of talons into its spine.”

“Huge feet, gray with grime, and big fat toes: a footful of thumbs drumming the pavement.”

“Although he claims that he 'couldn't conceive of trying to evade the draft in any way', that is exactly what he did, deliberately seeking out an anti-war doctor and demonstrating to him that he was two toes short of a footful, the result of a teenage argument with a lawnmower.”

“One of the feetful of marathons that are a study of efficiency, Berlin also boasts supportive crowds and tremendous excitement.”

“They were rock stars at a time when rock stars were supposed to wear silly clothes. The public just looked on, and up, in admiration. Only a handful, or perhaps a footful, of other rockers have come as close to Elton as being identified with a shoe of their own.”

“You will undoubtedly have a handful (or footful!) of questions along the way.”

“'Ah've just about had a bellyful of you.' 'An' Ah've had a footful of you, friend.'”

“Adding power and turning with the rudder is an option, but some precision is sacrificed. The takeoff roll in the -6 is a bit of a handful (footful?).”

“Virtually every work of Brahms boasts a footful of pedals.”

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