lungful
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editlungful (plural lungfuls or lungsful)
- As much as the lungs will hold.
- The diver took in lungfuls of air as he returned to the surface.
- 2014, Rebecca Ley, “City versus country childhoods”, in The Guardian, +201 December 2014:
- For there are many kinds of freedom, not just the ones that involve surf and lungfuls of fresh air.