tumblerful

6.1

The amount of liquid that fills a small glass

noun
/ˈtʌmbərlfəl/

: taza llena

At the party, guests enjoyed a tumblerful of punch while mingling.

Examples

Johnnie pours himself another tumblerful of Walker Black Label.

Fiction book (1990)
For example, "he kept himself sober" in order to attend his sister's funeral, but he "rose in suicidal low spirits, as fit for the church as for a dance; and instead, he sat down by the fire and swallowed gin or brandy by the tumblerful" (143).

Academic text (1997)
After a long day, he treated himself to a tumblerful of whiskey to relax.
She filled her glass with a tumblerful of lemonade before heading outside.

Synonyms

glass

vstumblerful

622 1.0

A container used for drinking, often for water or juice

is the amount that fills a short straight-sided drinking cup

glassful

vstumblerful

1 1.4

An amount that fills a glass

is specific to a short straight-sided drinking cup rather than any vessel

How Much

bottle

284 1.0

tumblerful

6.1

sip

165 1.0

drop

349 1.0

Surface Forms

tumblerful singular

tumblerfuls plural

Morphology

tumblerful = tumbler (transparent) = tumbler + ful

Standard measure-forming suffix '-ful' attached to 'tumbler' yields 'amount that fills a tumbler', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Tumblerful is made from tumbler, meaning a short drinking glass, and the ending -ful, meaning 'as much as fills'. So a tumblerful is simply the amount of liquid that fills a tumbler glass.