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Webster 1913 Edition
Spoonful
Spoon′ful
(-fụl)
, Noun.
pl.
Spoonfuls
(-fụlz)
. 1.
The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain;
as, a tea
spoonful
; a tablespoonful
.2.
Hence, a small quantity.
Arbuthnot.
Webster 1828 Edition
Spoonful
SPOONFUL
,Noun.
1.
As much as a spoon contains or is able to contain; as a tea spoonful; a table spoonful.2.
A small quantity of a liquid.Definition 2024
spoonful
spoonful
English
Noun
spoonful (plural spoonfuls or spoonsful)
- The amount that a spoon will hold, either level or heaped.
- 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
- But Richmond […] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw […] that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
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Derived terms
Translations
amount a spoon will hold
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