Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The amount that a spoon holds.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. As much as a spoon contains.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain
- n. Hence, a small quantity.
WordNet 3.0
- n. as much as a spoon will hold
Etymologies
- spoon + -ful (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The combination of the pickled cabbage, along with rice, minced pork, and pork chop on one spoonful, is amazing.”
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“Until the very last spoonful is used up this jam shall be a reminder of this year's gorgeous Seattle summer, of my weekly trips to the market and a promise of next year's summer and the market season ahead.”
“There is a piece of fruit in nearly every spoonful, which is a far cry from high fructose corn syrup laden offerings of competitors.”
“You can add one of four ingredients to help bind a vinaigrette; namely, a spoonful of mayonnaise, heavy cream, prepared mustard, or meat juices.”
“I knew that as soon as I read the words - 'spoonful" - 'stir" - -oven-.”
“Nokehick, that is, a spoonful of parched meal with a spoonful of water, which will strengthen them to travel a day.”
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
“_Nokehick_, that is, a spoonful of parched meal with a spoonful of water, which will strengthen them to travel a day.”
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
“Here I lay and took a thing for my cold, namely a spoonful of honey and a nutmeg scraped into it, by Mr. Bowyer's direction, and so took it into my mouth, which I found did do me much good.”
“If her husband managed to sneak a spoonful of Ensure into her mouth, she usually spit it out.”
“Three times a week, mySpoonful handpicks a single new artist that music fans should know about, and includes a free MP3 for listening or download. mySpoonful's unique "spoonful" format of delivering music is concise, simple and consistent, and lets music lovers learn about new artists any way they want - via web, email, Facebook, Twitter and a mobile site, where people can play and download songs right to their smartphone or mobile device.”
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Imprecise Units of Measurement
A list of terms for units of measurement that are less than exact, such as dessert-spoonful.
two shakes, dessert-spoonful, a pinch, a bit, some, smidge, smidgin, dollop, drop, fleck, smack, sprinkling and 187 more...
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scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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