0 as much as can be held in one hand -- hrst
a handful of sweets.
2 a person etc difficult to control -- pěkné kvítko, rarášek
Her three children are a (bit of a) handful.
A particularly distinct custom associated with "pepernoten" is throwing them in handfuls through the room so children can look for them.
None is dominated by a famous-name composer, and few address music that will be familiar to any but a handful of scholars.
The taximeters on the taxi-cabs were speeding up, the people on the omnibuses were tearing their hair out in handfuls, and everybody was getting the wind up.
Our northern people cannot live on handfuls of rice and walk about in loin cloths.
Very often there are only a few handfuls of children, and they have to remain at that school for the rest of their educational days.
I think that there were only a few handfuls of exceptions in the referendum.
We need many grains of sand—handfuls of sand—working inside the city centres without hampering restrictions in order to raise the level of economic activity.
They had professional uniformed promotion girls distributing handfuls of tendentious propaganda.
