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In some senses, dayful is marked as poetic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
dayful
noun 2adj 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
all, long, mouthful, seamless, suntastic
VERB + DAYFUL
steps
DAYFUL + NOUN
ignition, traintrips
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
1
The amount (of something) that fills or is produced in a day.
Pure half hours in which people can really rest or really talk are worth whole dayfuls of words tossed out and never caught.
Its aloneness corners on to mine, is quilted on, like land. It spreads open my warrened days by the dayful, all its seamless miles.
2
A tiring day.
Most of us, however, figuring that we had already had a dayful and that another dayful was but a few hours off, hastened to the waiting special cars of the Pacific Electric company and were taken back to the Alexandria.
But it was only one situation in a playful dayful where baby had to be entertained, not only for her own sake, but for the sake of the self-preservation of the family.
adj
1
Pertaining to daytime and a day's activities.
They glitter the closemouths, psalmody the stones with suntastic steps of dayful ignition.
Three summers like any other three summers aren't they long and dayful with traintrips to the sea edge and free legs?
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Pure half hours in which people can really rest or really talk are worth whole dayfuls of words tossed out and never caught.
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Its aloneness corners on to mine, is quilted on, like land. It spreads open my warrened days by the dayful, all its seamless miles.
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I began asking my mom to write things down for me as I created poetry by the mouthful and the dayful.
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They glitter the closemouths, psalmody the stones with suntastic steps of dayful ignition.
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Three summers like any other three summers aren't they long and dayful with traintrips to the sea edge and free legs?
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