trayful

English

Etymology

From tray +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eɪfʊl

Noun

trayful (plural trayfuls or traysful)

  1. As much as a tray will hold.
    • 1929, Rachel Field, chapter XVII, in Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, page 198:
      The fat man took his place on the doorstep behind what had been the kitchen table and his friends came forward with a trayful of the china dogs.
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