bowl
- noun
- /boʊl/
- And there you go, a bowl of fresh Thai lemongrass soup.
- bowl of rice
- bowl of stew
- bowl of cereal
Joey, you have two bowls of old food on that desk.
- Joey, you have two bowls of old food on that desk.
- So if you if you eat a bowl of rice, that's all glucose.
- I requested a second bowl and then I ate other people's bowls when they were too full.
- I don't know, but there's just endless bowls of pigs in a blanket in a baseball game.
- So said better Acai bowls, Pattaya bowls, anything super food in a bowl.
- Just some people's life is a bowl of shit.
Examples
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They had a big bowl, a medium bowl and a tiny little bowl.
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I eat gigantic, gigantic bowls of beans and rice.
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Chase gave me a bowl of this stuff just straight up.
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Give me two bowls of water!
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Joey, you have two bowls of old food on that desk.
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Mr. Kim lifted his head from his rice bowl, looking very old.
Fiction book (1990) -
But now, one bowl of crimson remains.
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I requested a second bowl and then I ate other people's bowls when they were too full.
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Plop it back into the bowl and that's it.
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Please pour me a bowl of cereal for breakfast.
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Compounds
- Specialized
A machine that chops and mixes meat quickly with fast blades in a round bowl
- Specialized
A machine that chops and mixes meat and other food inside a spinning bowl
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Etymology
Bowl used for an amount comes from the same old root bolla and from the simple idea of naming food by its container; just like 'a cup' can mean the amount in a cup, 'a bowl' means the quantity that fits in that round dish.