[f. LUNG + -FUL.] So much as will fill the lungs.
1852. Hogg’s Instructor, 56. The inspired lungful contains an infinite variety of agents. There are oxygen, nitrogen, [etc.].
1854. N. Y. Daily Times, in The Age (Melbourne), 24 Oct., 6/5. Arabella atrophy, that lovely houri, whose waist is so divinely slender, how should we find her now? Slippers and no stockings we will wager a lungful of fresh air.
1860. Piesse, Lab. Chem. Wonders, 109. A lungful of real fresh air.
1894. Outing (U. S.), XXIV. 70/1. Bracing lungfulls of morning air.
