0 the amount held in one hand -- håndfull [ masculine ]
a handful of candy en håndfull sukkertøy
1 [ singular ] a small number -- håndfull [ masculine ]
Just a handful of people showed up. Bare en håndfull personer dukket opp.
2 [ singular ] sb who is difficult to deal with -- umulig person [ masculine ]
3 as much as can be held in one hand -- håndfull, neve
a handful of sweets.
5 a person etc difficult to control -- en (noe) som er vanskelig å styre/håndtere
Her three children are a (bit of a) handful.
Recorded popular music also drives home the fact that songs don't have just ' a' hook - they have several, or a few handfuls, with different roles and degrees of importance.
Handfuls of grass and earth were clutched in the hands.
At that stage there are handfuls of people who still cannot meet their debt.
We have learned to take all that with substantial handfuls of salt.
Such people in any one strike can be numbered virtually in handfuls.
I remember that we had several handfuls of appeals to deal with at a time.
There are handfuls of cuttings to this effect to which everyone has access and which no doubt many of us have read.
They had professional uniformed promotion girls distributing handfuls of tendentious propaganda.
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