Dessert-spoonful

as much as a dessert spoon will hold, usually reckoned at about two and a half fluid drams.

See also: Dessert

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Lynn, from Liverpool, weighs 26 stone and has decided to have a stomach band fitted which will allow her to eat only portions the size of a dessert-spoonful.
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