flatful

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Enough to fill a flat (apartment). UK
    — [S]he pointedly remarked that they had just moved to the city a month previous, that they were dissatisfied, and would return to Hoosierdom in June. I was completely taken in, and departed without making the assessment. However, when whole flatsful began to make similar explanations under similar circumstances, I awoke to the fact that I had been bluffed.
  2. Enough to fill a flat (container).
    — When the first lot of cuttings has been taken from the flat clean out the flat, using new sand for the next lot; never use sand twice. It must not be supposed that all will go as swimmingly as it reads, as there is a disease that young cuttings, known as “cutting-bench fungus,” which sweeps whole flatfuls away in a single day.

词形变化

flatfuls plural flatsful plural

词源

From flat + -ful.
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