paddockful

词形变化

paddockfuls 复数 paddockfuls paddocksful paddocksful 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    As much as a paddock (field of grassland) will hold.

    1872, anonymous, “Jingling Geordie” in All the Year Round, Christmas 1872, p. 19, “I hear this mare of yours is a clipper; but I shall see what metal she has in her before an hour’s over.” “I tell you the truth, man. It is hard to part with her. My girl, Lizzie, is fond of her, and she is fond of Lizzie, and I allow I’d sooner you’d take all the paddockful than her.”

词源

From paddock + -ful.

来源：wiktionary