spoonful

English

Etymology

From Middle English sponeful, sponefull, sponful, spone-ful, equivalent to spoon +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspuːnfəl/, /ˈspuːnfʊl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈspʌnfʊl/

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.

Hyponyms

• coffeespoonful
• dessertspoonful
• eggspoonful
• saltspoonful
• serving spoonful
• soupspoonful
• tablespoonful
• teaspoonful

Coordinate terms

• forkful
• knifeful
• ladleful
• sporkful

Derived terms

• a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down

Translations

amount a spoon will hold

• Afrikaans: lepelvol
• Arabic: ملء ملعقَة
• Basque: koilarakada
• Bulgarian: лъжица (bg) f (lǎžica)
• Catalan: cullerada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一匙的量 (yī chí de liàng)

• Czech: lžíce (cs) f, lžička (cs) f
• Danish: skefuld (da)
• Dutch: lepel (nl), lepelvol
• Esperanto: ĉerpeto
• Estonian: lusikatäis
• Finnish: lusikallinen (fi)
• French: cuillerée (fr) f
• German: Löffelvoll m
• Greek: κουταλιά (el) f (koutaliá)
• Hungarian: kanálnyi (hu)
• Icelandic: skeið (is) f, skeiðarfylli f
• Ido: kulieredo (io)
• Indonesian: sendok (id), sesendok sg
• Ingrian: lusikalliin, lusikka
• Irish: lán spúnóige m
• Italian: cucchiaiata (it) f, cucchiaio (it) m
• Japanese: スプーン一杯 (supūn-ippai)
• Korean: 숟가락 하나 가득 (sutgarak hana gadeuk)
• Lithuanian: šaukštas (lt) m
• Manx: lane spein m
• Marathi: चमचाभर (camcābhar)
• Norman: tchul'lée f (Jersey)
• Plautdietsch: Läpelvoll m
• Portuguese: colherada (pt) f
• Russian: ло́жка (ru) f (lóžka)
• Scottish Gaelic: làn na spàine m
• Spanish: cucharada (es) f
• Swedish: sked (sv)
• Telugu: గరిటెడు (gariṭeḍu)
• Vietnamese: một muổng