handful

/ˈhændfʊl/ noun

Translation

› [C] the amount of something that you can hold in one hand

el/avuç dolusu

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a handful of sth › a small number of people or things

çok az sayıda/bir avuç (insan, şey)

Only a handful of people came to the meeting.17961813

a handful informal › someone who is difficult to control, especially a child

ele avuca sığmaz, haşarı, yaramaz, afacan

Daisy's only three and she's quite a handful.1785

(Definition of handful noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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