spoonful
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈspuːnˌfʊl/
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cucharada
- 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
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1.6
An amount of food or drink you can put in your mouth at once
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1.0
A small amount of food or liquid that fills a bowl-shaped tool
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3.2
A small piece of food that you eat in one bite
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3.8
A small amount of soft food put on something
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2.1
An amount of food that fits on a fork
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Etymology
The word spoonful combines spoon and the ending -ful, which means 'full'. So a spoonful is the amount that fills a spoon.