| query | If you say that someone, especially a child, is a h______, you mean that they are difficult to control.If you say that someone, especially a child, is a handful, you mean that they are difficult to control. Zara can be a handful sometimes. |
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| word | handful |
| full-definition | noun A handful of people or things is a small number of them. He surveyed the handful of customers at the bar. One spring morning a handful of potential investors assembled in Quincy. A handful of something is the amount of it that you can hold in your hand. She scooped up a handful of sand and let it trickle through her fingers. If you say that someone, especially a child, is a handful, you mean that they are difficult to control. Zara can be a handful sometimes. |
| inflections | handfuls |
| cefr-level | C1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1
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