cupful

English

Etymology

From cup +‎ -ful. Compare Saterland Frisian Kopful.

Noun

cupful (plural cupfuls or cupsful)

1. The amount necessary to make a cup full

   Add a cupful of milk to the sauce.

2. A half pint, i.e. eight ounces

Translations

the amount necessary to make a cup full

• Armenian: գավաթ (hy) (gavatʿ)
• Asturian: cacíu m
• Bulgarian: ча́ша (bg) f (čáša)
• Finnish: kupillinen (fi)
• French: tasse (fr) f
• Hungarian: csészényi

• Norman: (Guernsey) coupaïe f, (Jersey) tâssée f
• Portuguese: xícara (pt) f
• Russian: ча́шка (ru) f (čáška)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ча̏ша f

  Roman: čȁša (sh) f

a half pint — see half-pint

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967