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say it: HAND-fuul
handful is a noun meaning "a small number or amount". It is pronounced /ˈhændˌfʊl/ — HAND-fuul. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a small number or amount
“only a handful of responses were received”
the quantity that can be held in the hand
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for handful come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.