英和和英

名詞

yearful (plural yearfuls or yearsful)

1. The amount that occurs in a year; a year's worth (of something).
   • 1904, The Congregationalist and Christian World, page 882:

     He had three yearsful of news to relate and in it all not a word of discouragement, but enthusiasm for what has already been done and plans for what is yet to be done.

   • 1924, H. G. Wells, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     This is what I have been saying in these eight and twenty volumes of collected works and in this yearful of newspaper articles, and after a rest it is quite possible I shall go on saying it some more.

語源 2

From year +‎ -ful. Compare Dutch bejaard (“having many years, elderly, aged”).

形容詞

yearful (comparative more yearful, superlative most yearful)

1. (rare) Full of years; elderly; aged.
   • 1907, The Nation, volume 1, page 929:

     […] but into the quiet haunts of the yearful ones ye cannot as yet hope for admission.

   • 1910, Harry H. Green, The Recognition of Jesse Badleigh, page 106:

     […] an encampment of these Sioux, com posed of nearly two hundred persons, of both sexes, and of different ages, from the yearful father of the chief, to his small grand-child, a pappoose of tender years.

   • 1972, Outposts, page 29:

     Pity the yearful tree, green branches torn, fronting to-morrow's winds because it must.