cupful

English

Etymology

From Middle English copful, copfull, cupfulle, cuppefulle, equivalent to cup +‎ -ful. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kopful (“cupful”), West Frisian kopfol (“cupful”).

Noun

cupful (plural cupfuls or cupsful)

1. The amount necessary to fill a cup.

   Add a cupful of milk to the sauce.

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     But as things were it was manageable enough, and we did not ship a cupful of water.

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

Translations

the amount necessary to fill a cup

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

• Norman: coupaïe f (Guernsey), tâssée f (Jersey)
• 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