Definitions
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- noun As much as a
pouch can hold.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I imagine that junior understudy will get quiet a slimy pouchful from the master level brain infiltration director.
Archive 2009-06-01 kludge 2009
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I imagine that junior understudy will get quiet a slimy pouchful from the master level brain infiltration director.
Rookie Moves kludge 2009
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I tested the next few amounts with increasing confidence, and I drank the pretty clean tenth pouchful entirely, before the cow ran out of patience, swished her tail in my face and with dignity swayed conclusively away.
Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999
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He gathered a pouchful of twigs and dry needles to start the fire with, then tucked the full jar in the bend of one arm, hefted the limb in his other hand, and headed back toward the marsh.
The Misenchanted Sword Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1985
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"This pouchful of us ¦ to fathom an entire world!"
A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969
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He had kept the regulation knife and pouchful of oddments.
Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966
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Conan might ride into Zamora with a pouchful of gems yet.
Conan Howard, Robert E. & De Camp, L. Sprague & Carter, Lin 1966
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Spring fever impels us to get out in the country; to seize a knotted cudgel and a pouchful of tobacco and agitate our limbs over the landscape.
Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923
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Why, then, good morning to you, for business must be minded; unless yell go aboard and take schnaps, 3you shall have a pouchful of tea ashore.
Chapter IV 1917
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Without conscious effort, he heard all the slight sounds in the apparent quiet -- heard, and differentiated, and classified these sounds -- whether they were of the wind rustling the leaves, of the humming of bees and gnats, of the distant rumble of the sea that drifted to him only in lulls, or of the gopher, just under his foot, shoving a pouchful of earth into the entrance of his hole.
The Scarlet Plague 1912
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