Meaning of neighborhoodful | Babel Free

Definitions

Enough to fill a neighborhood.

Examples

“THE Kewpies are giving a Christmas party, the best sort⟳ of party, to a whole neighborhoodful of poor children that the rich people forgot.”

“A neighborhoodful of farmers would rave for ten years about how the grain-buyers skinned them; and they would be perfectly right; they were being skinned.”

““But there is another whole world out there, the black middle class, people who are making ends meet⟳, who are sending their children to college. Two professionals in the household. Providing. And you don’t have⟳ to hide⟳ behind a tree (looking for them) and say⟳, ‘There goes one, there goes one.’ They come⟳ in neighborhoodsful.””

“But, like⟳ Janet, you may not be able to stop⟳ until you've knitted a neighbourhoodful – they're quick to knit⟳ and a wonderful way to use⟳ up all your scraps of yarn.”

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