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teaspoonful

teaspoonful

1 1.0
An amount that fits a teaspoon for cooking or medicine
  • noun
  • /ˈtiːspuːnˌfʊl/
translation icon : cucharadita
  • Each serving requires a generous teaspoonful of the spice mix to enhance the taste.
  • a rounded teaspoonful
  • a teaspoonful of mixture
  • teaspoonfuls of dough

Examples

  • One cup of sugar, 1/4 teaspoonful Of salt, One teaspoonful Of cream of tartar, One teaspoonful Of vanilla.

    Hold Your Man (1933)

  • You shouldn't have more than a teaspoonful.

    Bliss (1985)

  • There was no more than a teaspoonful of meat in each crab.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Or you can even mix 1 teaspoonful.

    Blog text (17)

  • More than a teaspoonful, less than a pint.

    Drifter (2008)

  • Take a teaspoonful of it and boil it in a pint of water.

    Blog text (16)

  • Ask the patient to describe the amount of mucus, for example, as a teaspoonful or half an eggcup.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Recently, I was able to get fantastically tender dough by adding a teaspoonful of lemon juice to my all-butter pie dough.

    Blog text (15)

  • You know, after that session we had yesterday, I went home and told Mother that the trouble with her pot roast gravy was she hadn't added three heaping teaspoonfuls of olive oil.

    Tell Your Children (1938)

  • For this recipe, you will need to add a teaspoonful of sugar to balance the flavors.

Synonyms

teaspoon
vsteaspoonful
83 1.0

A measure in recipes equal to about 5 milliliters

is the same amount but spoken as the full quantity word in recipes and medicine
tsp
vsteaspoonful
13 1.0

A small measure you use in cooking

is the full quantity word rather than the short written form

How Much

cupful
2 1.7
teaspoonful
1 1.0
to dash
1 2.8
pinch
33 1.0

Surface Forms

teaspoonful singular
teaspoonfuls plural

Morphology

teaspoonful = teaspoon (transparent) = tea + spoon + ful

Formed by adding the productive suffix '-ful' to the clear compound 'teaspoon' to indicate an amount equal to a teaspoon.

Etymology

Teaspoonful comes from teaspoon, a small spoon for 'tea', and the ending -ful, which means 'as much as'. So a teaspoonful is the amount that fills a teaspoon, which is why recipes and medicine use it as a simple measure.