cemeteryfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

cemetery +‎ -ful

名詞

cemeteryful (複数形 cemeteryfuls)

1. (rare, humorous) As much as a cemetery would hold.
   • 1960, Walt Kelly, Pogo, January 22 comic strip (→ISBN, p. 113):

     [Albert:] In my time a whole cemeteryful of constituents could sweep you into office.

   • 1978, Frederick Busch, The Mutual Friend (1994 reprint, →ISBN, p. 114):

     Depend upon it, this place was built by a cemeteryful of old people, who, making a successful rise against death, have carried the place by assault, and, bringing their gravestones with them, have contrived to build the city, in which they are trying to look alive.