Eggspoonful
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The amount that an egg spoon will hold.
"By this time the 7-weeks-old 5½-lb. baby was 10½ weeks, and weighed 7lbs. 10 oz., and the milk had been increased by 1 oz. to the pint of food. Now started Virol 1 eggspoonful per day, increasing the amount to 3 eggspoonfuls in 24 hours."
Example
More examples"By this time the 7-weeks-old 5½-lb. baby was 10½ weeks, and weighed 7lbs. 10 oz., and the milk had been increased by 1 oz. to the pint of food. Now started Virol 1 eggspoonful per day, increasing the amount to 3 eggspoonfuls in 24 hours."
Etymology
From eggspoon + -ful.
More for "eggspoonful"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.