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Pawful vs Pewful - What's the difference?

pawful | pewful |

As nouns the difference between pawful and pewful

is that pawful is as much as a paw can hold while pewful is an amount sufficient to fill a pew.

pawful

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • As much as a paw can hold.

    • pewful

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount sufficient to fill a pew.
  • * 1896 , Hubert Crackanthorpe, " Anthony Garstin's Courtship", The Savoy , July 1896:
    • The scanty congregation, who had been sitting, stolidly immobile in their stiff, Sunday clothes, shuffled to their feet, and the pewful of school-children, in clamorous chorus, intoned the final hymn.
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