Spoonful

//ˈspuːnfəl// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The amount that a spoon will hold, either level or heaped.

    "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."

  2. 2
    as much as a spoon will hold wordnet

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Example

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"Tom ate a spoonful of peanut butter."

Etymology

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

Related phrases

a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go downa spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down

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