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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 table
spoonful
.
2.
Hence, a small quantity.
Arbuthnot.

Webster 1828 Edition


Spoonful

SPOONFUL

,
Noun.
[spoon and full.]
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)

  1. 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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