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  • noun Plural form of fingerful.

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Examples

  • In the morning he woke me, whispering Honey, Honey, smearing the sheets in elaborate patterns with fingerfuls of poop from his diaper, twining his fingers in my hair, Honey.

    That Baby Lindsay Hunter 2010

  • Even exposure to a few fingerfuls of dust can raise a toddler's blood lead to dangerous levels, scientists say.

    For many kids, lead threat is right in their own homes 2007

  • Some people scoop fingerfuls of frosting into their mouth, one burst of buttercream at a time.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • She might even sleep like a brick, her breath sugary from fingerfuls of molasses or sand-cookie crumbs.

    Beloved Morrison, Toni 1987

  • Manifesting supreme indifference to the vatulalilu flowers" ferocious fragrance, the Deyzara blithely smeared large fingerfuls of the potent syrupy extrusion all over his body.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • Manifesting supreme indifference to the vatulalilu flowers" ferocious fragrance, the Deyzara blithely smeared large fingerfuls of the potent syrupy extrusion all over his body.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

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