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Shipful vs Shopful - What's the difference?

shipful | shopful |

As nouns the difference between shipful and shopful

is that shipful is as much as a ship will hold while shopful is the amount that a shop can hold.

shipful

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • As much as a ship will hold.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 19, author=Holland Cotter, title=Treasure Hunt for Grown-Ups With Money, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=And in Elinor Gordon’s booth you’ll find a shipful of China Trade porcelains, of a kind that gave the West an image of China that the Chinese thought the West wanted to see. }}

    shopful

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The amount that a shop can hold.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1893, author=Alexandre Dumas, title=The Vicomte de Bragelonne, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Fresh butter, salt beef, anchovies, tunny, a shopful of Planchet's commodities, fowls, vegetables, salad, fish from the pond and the river, game from the forest--all the produce, in fact, of the province. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1921, author=Harry Leon Wilson, title=The Wrong Twin, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Nor did she mean to voice her wishes before a shopful of people who might consider them ambiguous. }}