strawful

English

Etymology

From straw +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔːfʊl

Noun

strawful (plural strawfuls or strawsful)

1. Enough to fill a drinking straw.
   • 1959, The Scribe, The Advancing Ego: A Perpetual Text, Boston, Mass.: Meador Publishing Company, page 39:

     And yet, you would sip a tiny strawful of God’s Nectar once a day for a few minutes when actually you could drink your fill of Life and Love, and always keep your spiritual thirst quenched so gratifyingly.

   • 1966, Paul Franz Brandwein, Concepts in Science, Harcourt, Brace & World, page 49:

     Placing a finger over the open end of the straw after it has been immersed in the liquid allows withdrawal of a strawful.

   • 1972, M. E. White, Con, Harper & Row, page 15:

     Some thick cherry syrup still remained at the bottom of his glass, and he shook the ice around for a minute until there was enough liquid for a last strawful, then he pushed the button in the palm of his hand that rendered him invisible and slipped unseen from the counter.

   • 1995, Stephen Strauss, The Sizesaurus, Kodansha International, page 9:

     This means that it would take 17,000 strawfuls of water to fill up a 130-liter (34-gallon) bathtub, and 130,000,000 to fill a typical two-story house.

   • 2006, Jonathan Reynolds, Wrestling with Gravy: A Life, with Food, Random House Trade Paperbacks, published 2008, page 231:

     While the stars sip their strawsful of sugarless broth fumes and vapor of fetal watercress leaf helicoptered to their trailers daily, everyone else gets fat.