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handful

['hændful] n
stresses
fistful
gen. горсть (with gen., of); пригоршня (as much as can be held in one hand • I put two or three corns in my mouth, liked it, stole a handful, went into my chamber, chewed it, and for two months after never failed taking toll of every pennyworth of oatmeal that came into the house.; a handful of sweets); небольшое количество; маленькая кучка; группа; горсточка; малое количество; горстка (небольшое количество segu); несколько (All of the men, whose names and dates of birth were published in the initial 29 July report, were Russian nationals while a handful also had dual citizenship with Ukraine and Belarus. bellingcat.com 4uzhoj); узкий круг (An exceptional opportunity for a handful of owners ispeaksuahili); ручня; всего лишь несколько (Ivan Pisarev); ничтожно мало (katezdess); маленькая группа; сущее наказание (a person etc. difficult to control • Her three children are a (bit of a) handful)
agric. кучка
busin. горсть
cook. пригоршня
crim.jarg. пятак (пятилетний тюремный срок • He's had a two-stretch. He'll collect a handful next time. – У него уже есть две судимости. В следующий раз он получит пять лет. alexs2011)
crim.jarg., explan. пятилетний тюремный срок (He's had a two-stretch. He'll collect a handful next time.)
Gruzovik, arch., poetic пясть
idiom. по пальцам перечесть (tadzhmakhal); это нечто (Runi_); это что-то (Runi_)
inf. беда (о ком-либо или чем-либо); наказание (о ком-либо или чем-либо); "заноза в заднице" (alexghost); "головная боль" (alexghost); не подарок (he's quite a handful – у него характер не подарок Рина Грант); горстка
mining. полная горсть (при опробовании)
obs. ладонь (мера); полные руки
textile горсть льняных стеблей
ukr. жменя (I. Havkin)
unit.meas., obs. четыре дюйма (по ширине ладони)
 English thesaurus
handful ['hændful] n
gen. a small number, usually approximately five (The names of a number of the most famous North American railroads could be found in the north-east; Pennsylvania, New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, and the Norfolk & Western, to name but a handful. wiktionary.org); a group or number of things; a bunch (But, aunt, she must have had some kind of education, her accent was so pure, her English so unfaulty. The other girl dropped her h's by handfuls, and made some very wild confusion in her native etymology. wiktionary.org)
crim.jarg. a five-year prison sentence (wiktionary.org)
inf. something which can only be managed with difficulty (Those twins are a real handful to look after. wiktionary.org)
unit.meas., obs. a hand's breadth; four inches (wiktionary.org)
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