hourful

Etymology

From hour + -ful.

noun

  1. Enough to last an hour.“The silver tufts of grass have fed the air with hourfuls of mealy ferine smells and hot-backed buzzards, eagles and vultures must have chased their murderous shadows through the bush”

adj

  1. Full of hours; time-consuming.“And all I did was Moan and rise and moan And fall And pain away and break And slip In many hourful whiles.”