prisonful

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Enough to fill a prison.
    — When we shall have, as suggested by “A Briton,” thus once for all degraded ourselves to the level of savages, we shall undoubtedly have on our hands a furious and open Irish insurrection, with an American war, and then possibly certain savage deeds in India, perpetrated while suppressing a real insurrection, might rise up against us, and teach us that even that affair might have been managed by fair fighting alone without suffocating prisonsful of sepoys, and murdering peasantry on the line of march.

词形变化

prisonfuls plural prisonsful plural

词源

From prison + -ful.
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