Several/few

Olgar Shiverstone said:

A couple is two, a few is three, a handful is four or five, and several is six or more ... up to about ten when "many" takes over.

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This sounds about right.

Oddly, I wanted to start a similar thread as my wife disagrees with me on what a "few" means.

In my context, "a few" is the answer I got for "Can I have some cookies" which meant 2-4 cookies, rather than as many as I can cram down my cookie hole.

that shaped my definition...