Meaning of playgroundful | Babel Free

Definitions

Enough to fill a playground.

no-plural

Examples

“In addition to a long list of radio-phonographs and records, projector, piano, folding chairs for meetings, bulletin boards, a cello for the orchestra, typewriter and mimeograph, card catalogues and files, 17 trees for the grounds, bookshelves and books, there’s a whole playgroundful of sports equipment donated.”

“The new experience involves a lot of preparation … new clothes, a physical examination, learning how to get to school plus the adjustment to taking or buying one’s lunch, getting to know a teacher and playing new games with a playgroundful of children.”

“By late afternoon a whole playground-ful of items had been auctioned off, including four collie pups, an old piano, toys, baby cribs, farm machinery, straw, beans, and even an armload of “Hula Hoops.””

“There’s a spark of humor in a playgroundful of boys and girls flying kites.”

“But undoubtedly a whale beached incongruously on a clearance site in a mildly tough area of Liverpool, between boozer and bookie, tatty pawnshop and towering council flats.[…]There was a good playgroundful of kids, lapping round the long-suffering leviathan in cursing currents as the word spread that you could get in- or on, or under it at the other end, losing interest as they were shooed off and finding fresh attractions in sliding down the roof of an adjacent school or breaking whisky bottles in front of passing cars.”

“Outside a blue jay’s ragged discussion with himself answered what sounded like a distant playgroundful of children merrily slaughtering each other at recess.”

“Extra big 6-legged gym set keeps a home playground-ful of happy children.”

“The people who moved out of the house next door bequeathed him a playgroundful of equipment—slide, swings, seesaw, jungle gym—for the grandchildren.”

“Sparrows merrily chirped in the trees that shaded a playgroundful of tots and mothers and she crossed to the hospital not to have her baby but lose it.”

“There may not be a playgroundful of fresh-cut beginner trails this winter, or a snazzy new aluminum-roofed condo complex in the village.”

“We stopped to watch the lycée children being herded into class, a playgroundful of shining morning faces, and then took an old stone bridge across the Arrats, back into the beginning of another feather of the Fan.”

“TAKE a schoolful of sporty children, a playgroundful of parents and fieldful of bounces - castle and trampoline variety. Add a barbecue, a bar and a large pinch of PTA power and family fun flavouring, and you have the recipe for Thomas Barnes Summer Sports Tournament.”

“Remember [George H. W.] Bush’s response to the clamor to do something about assault weapons after a lunatic with a Chinese-made AK-47 massacred a playgroundful of children in Stockton, Calif.”

“We faced a playgroundful of children.”

“When she called them back to class, the kids burst through the classroom door, carrying a playgroundful of energy with them.”

“When Grace was a baby, I would sit tensely in a roomful or a playgroundful of other women and their children, listening to the low rumble of debate, the judgments passed, the disapproval masquerading as a question or even as admiration ([…]), and the uneasiness and fear and even panic I could hear just underneath what everybody said ([…]), every mother implicitly criticizing whatever anybody else was doing if it were even the least bit different from what she was doing – since doing things differently was an implicit criticism of her way.”

“Santa found himself with a heaving playgroundful of adoring tots dangling in clusters off his legs.”

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