名词

1. 几个;少数
A handful of people or things is a small number of them.

2. 一把
A handful of something is the amount of it that you can hold in your hand.

3. 难管的人（尤指孩子）
If you say that someone, especially a child, is a handful, you mean that they are difficult to control.

1. the quantity that can be held in the hand

Synonym: fistful

2. a small number or amount

e.g. only a handful of responses were received

Synonym: smattering