While professing unhappiness with what he called a handful of 'mistakes,' he held fast to his basic support of Bush's policies. In the early 90s he dated the housemate of my then-boyfriend and it was quite bizarre when he told me, when refering to bosoms, that 'more than a handful is a waste'. noun the quantity that can be held in the hand.noun Something which can only be managed with difficulty.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.noun A small quantity, usually approximately equal to five, the number of fingers on a hand.noun As much as the hand will grasp or contain.noun to have one's hands full to have all one can do.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.noun A person, task, or situation, which is the most that one can manage.
noun obsolete A hand's breadth four inches.noun As much as one can hold or manage full employment.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun A small quantity or number a little.noun A unit of length equal to four inches a hand.noun As much as the hand can grasp or contain.noun Informal One that is difficult to control or handle.noun A small, undefined number or quantity.
From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
