How many is a few?

I always understood a 'few' to mean 3 when growing up, so can't think of it any other way.

I think it depends on what's being discussed. I'd say 'a few' days would be 5 or 6. If it just meant three, there wouldn't be a need for such a phrase!

I would think of a few as 4 at the most. If it is about 7 days she is staying, I would have said about a week.

A few is more that a couple and less than a handful.

The dictionary definition of 'several' is more than two but not very many, but that sounds more like my definition of 'a few'!

'Several', to me, indicates quite a lot - it's obviously a personal thing!

I would have called it a week, too!

Four days is a maximum I would have thought, depending on how you get on with the relative

I'd have thought that a few days could be counted on one hand, several on two hands, and "a lot" would be more than that.

I believe a tribe was once discovered which had only three number words - one, two and many.

Although I suppose if you said that the political rally was only attended by 'a few' it could mean 20 instead of hundreds

If a few is three or four, how many is 'quite a few'?

Re relatives roseq. I would say 3 days maintain good relations

What is that saying again? "Guests and fish stink after three days"

3 or 4. 2 is a couple and 5 several. A week is a week.

I'd have said 3 or 4.

Elegran oops.... we head off tomorrow to Carlisle for a week with our son, dil and 3 month old dgs. A few more that your recommended 3 days !!

Three or four is what I think of as a few.One is just one, a couple is two, so it must mean between three and six otherwise it would be a week.

What if it's chips you're talking about, though?

Never enough

You have me worried now Elegran !! I'm going to stay with a friend tomorrow for 6 days. Hope I don't start stinking.
I agree that a few is 3 or 4.

I agree too that a few, in terms of days, is 3 or 4. I can't see why it would be an absolute number, e.g. 3, as one poster has said, because why on earth would the term have come about? That is manifestly absurd. A few, several, some, a goodly number, quite a number, quite a few... they're all ways of describing an unknown quantity.
Someone told me many years ago that originally a 'moment' was one and a half minutes, and not the unspecified period of time it implies today.
I've only just remembered this and googled it. I came up with this fascinating wiki article

I've always thought of 'a few' as three or four. Seven days is not 'about a week' - it is a week! I'd say a 'moment' is what you make it. People often say, 'wait a second' when they couldn't possibly do whatever it might be in so short a time.

Repeated is more than once or twice

How many is a few too many?

About seven days is, about a week. A definite seven days wasn't mentioned anno

It's is more than a two or three large glasses of wine Ana

No, I haven't had more than three already this morning (my ungrammatical post above)