different between carful vs barful

carful

English

Etymology

From Middle English carful (cartful), equivalent to car +? -ful. Shift in meaning follows that of "cart" to modern senses of car.

Noun

carful (plural carfuls or carsful)

  1. As much as a car will hold.
    Tourists were arriving by the carful.

Anagrams

  • fulcra, furcal

Old English

Alternative forms

  • ?earful

Etymology

From caru +? -ful.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?k?r.ful/

Adjective

carful

  1. anxious
  2. careful

Declension

Derived terms

  • carfull??e

Descendants

  • Middle English: careful
    • English: careful

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barful

English

Etymology

bar +? -ful

Adjective

barful (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Full of obstructions.

Noun

barful (plural barfuls)

  1. Enough people to fill a bar.
    • 1999, Salon It's not funny November
      by the time he figured out that he would not have been required to stand and salute even if "Molly Malone" were the Irish national anthem, he already had a barful of drunken farmers laughing their Guinness-soaked heads off at him.

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