hatful

Plural: hatfuls, hatsful

Noun

• As much as a hat can hold; a large quantity.
• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
• as many or as much as a hat will hold
• The amount that will fit into a hat.
• A large amount or number.

Examples

• a hatful of money
• a hatful of trouble
• He had a HATFUL of vowels on his rack, making high-scoring words difficult to form.

Synonyms

batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad