英和和英

語源

twig +‎ -ful

名詞

twigful (複数形 twigfuls)

1. As much as a twig will hold.
   • 1947, Ethel McCrossin Orr, ‎Evelyn T. Holston, ‎Reading Today (book 1, page 52)

     Broad shading elms and sugar maples kept foothold there, spreading sun-traced shadows or holding twigfuls of snow.

   • 1950, Animal Kingdom (volumes 53-55, page 117)

     We had never seen anything like it and we had presence of mind to save several twigfuls of leaves, which proved to be the right food.