spoonful
- noun
- /ˈspuːnˌfʊl/
- She added a spoonful of sugar to her coffee to make it sweeter.
I typically have a a few spoonfuls at most of some homemade yoghurt.
- I typically have a a few spoonfuls at most of some homemade yoghurt.
- Could you, could you eat all just a straight up spoonful of mayonnaise?
Examples
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How about a giant spoonful of happiness?
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To comfort my nervous feelings, I drank a spoonful of valerian every day.
Fiction book (1993) -
So I, I recommend having one spoonful per day.
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But you can put a little spoonful of butter in your hot tea.
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Just give me a spoonful of the powder.
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I could only get him to swallow one spoonful of soup.
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For hiccups, a spoonful of sugar; you hold it in your mouth for a minute.
Fiction book (1993) -
That's a spoonful of chocolate inside of a cake.
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Noah hated vegetables but was required to eat one spoonful each night.
Fiction book (1995) -
The man poured milk into his tea and added several spoonfuls of sugar.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
An amount of food or drink you can put in your mouth at once
A small amount of food or liquid that fills a bowl-shaped tool
A small piece of food that you eat in one bite
A small amount of soft food put on something
An amount of food that fits on a fork
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Morphology
Etymology
The word spoonful combines spoon and the ending -ful, which means 'full'. So a spoonful is the amount that fills a spoon.