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Lapful. World English Historical Dictionary

Lapful. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1903, rev. 2024. Lapful sb. and a. [f. LAP sb.1 + -FUL.]

1   A.  sb. So much as will fill a person’s lap.

2 [1611.  Bible, 2 Kings iv. 39. One … found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wilde gourds his lap full.]

3 1611.  Cotgr., Gironnée, a lapfull, or bosomefull of.

4 1648.  Ward (title), The Simple Cobbler’s Boy, with a Lapful of Caveats.

5 1710.  Swift, Tatler, No. 230, ¶ 2. They are handed about from Lap-fulls in every Coffee-house to Persons of Quality.

6 1850.  Mrs. Jameson, Leg. Monast. Ord. (1863), 313. Her proper attribute is the lapful of roses.

7 1887.  Baring-Gould, Gaverocks, xiii. I have got a lap-full of chestnuts.

8   B.  adj. Having the lap full. rare.

9 1884.  Symonds, Shaks. Predecessors, vii. § 3. 264. Lap-full of flowers … the country lass of English art returns from those excursions.

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