spoonful
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English sponeful, sponefull, sponful, spone-ful, equivalent to spoon + -ful.
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Noun[edit]
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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Translations[edit]
amount a spoon will hold
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References[edit]
- ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 4.37, page 125.