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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