different between leaful vs leafful

English

Alternative forms

• leafful

Etymology

From Middle English leful, lefful, leafful, from Old English l?affull, ?el?afful (“full of belief, full of faith, believing, faithful”), equivalent to leave +? -ful. Cognate with Scots leful, levefull (“right, permissible, legal, just”).

Adjective

leaful (comparative more leaful, superlative most leaful)

1. (obsolete) Full of faith; believing.
2. (archaic, dialectal, Scotland) Faithful.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English leful, leafful, lefful, from Old English l?affull, ?el?afful (“believing, faithful, full of faith”), equivalent to leave +? -ful.

Adjective

leafful (comparative more leafful, superlative most leafful)

1. Alternative form of leaful

Etymology 2

From leaf +? -ful.

Noun

leafful (plural leaffuls)

1. The amount or measure held by a leaf.
   • 1906, Mark Twain, The Complete Works of Mark Twain:

     When night came, and the village was quiet, some old woman brought me a leafful of rice.

   • 2012, Octavia E. Butler, Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago:

     "[…] Better than anything I've had for a long time.” He settled to breaking and eating the rest while Akin brought another leafful to Iriarte.