spoon·ful

(spo͞on′fo͝ol′)

n. pl. spoon·fuls

The amount that a spoon holds.

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spoonful

(ˈspuːnˌfʊl)

n, pl -fuls

1. the amount that a spoon is able to hold

2. (Cookery) a small quantity

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spoon•ful

(ˈspun fʊl)

n., pl. -fuls.

1. as much as a spoon can hold.

2. a small quantity.

[1250–1300]

usage: See -ful.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

spoonful - as much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar"

spoon

containerful - the quantity that a container will hold

Translations

مِقْدَارُ مِلْعَقَةٌ صَغِيرَةمِقْدار مِلْعَقَه

lžíce

skefuld

lusikallinen

zalogaj

matskeiî

cucchiaiata cucchiaio

ひとさじ

한 숟가락 가득

sked

เต็มช้อน

bir kaşık dolusu

thìa đầy

一匙的量一汤匙

spoonful

[ˈspuːnfʊl] N → cucharada f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

spoonful

[ˈspuːnfʊl] n → cuillerée f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

spoonful

n → Löffel m; a spoonful of soup → ein Löffel Suppe

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

spoonful

[ˈspuːnfʊl] n → cucchiaiata

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

spoon

(spuːn) noun

1. an instrument shaped like a shallow bowl with a handle for lifting food (especially soup or pudding) to the mouth, or for stirring tea, coffee etc. a teaspoon/soup-spoon.

2. a spoonful.

verb

to lift or scoop up with a spoon. She spooned food into the baby's mouth.

ˈspoonful noun

the amount held by a spoon. three spoonfuls of sugar.

ˈspoon-feed – past tense, past participle ˈspoon-fed – verb

1. to feed with a spoon.

2. to teach or treat (a person) in a way that does not allow him to think or act for himself.

spoonful

→ مِقْدَارُ مِلْعَقَةٌ صَغِيرَة lžíce skefuld Löffel κουταλιά cucharada lusikallinen cuillérée zalogaj cucchiaiata ひとさじ 한 숟가락 가득 lepel skjefull łyżka (czegoś) colherada полная ложка sked เต็มช้อน bir kaşık dolusu thìa đầy 一汤匙

spoonful

n. cucharada.

spoonful

n (tablespoonful) cucharada sopera or grande, cucharada, 15 ml; (teaspoonful) cucharadita, 5 ml

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Before that estimable lady could recover herself, or offer the slightest retaliation, she was forced into a kneeling posture by a crowd of shouting tormentors, and compelled to swallow a spoonful of the odious mixture, rendered more than usually savoury by the immersion in the bowl of Master Wackford's head, whose ducking was intrusted to another rebel.

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He had scarcely swallowed the last spoonful, when there came a soft rap at the door.

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Amy, who was fond of delicate fare, took a heaping spoonful, choked, hid her face in her napkin, and left the table precipitately.

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A helot of Agesilaus made us a dish of Spartan broth, but I was not able to get down a second spoonful.

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"Come, Josh," he said, in a cajoling tone, "give us a spoonful of brandy, and a sovereign to pay the way back, and I'll go.

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Meanwhile Razumihin sat down on the sofa beside him, as clumsily as a bear put his left arm round Raskolnikov's head, although he was able to sit up, and with his right hand gave him a spoonful of soup, blowing on it that it might not burn him.

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"Open your mouth, sir, and take a sup of this." My mother was rejoicing over me on one side of the bed; and the unknown gentleman, addressed as "doctor," was offering me a spoonful of whisky-and-water on the other.

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If I had my way, I'd have Cap'n Smollett work us back into the trades at least; then we'd have no blessed miscalculations and a spoonful of water a day.

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He recalled his arrival on the island, his presentation to a smuggler chief, a subterranean palace full of splendor, an excellent supper, and a spoonful of hashish.

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For instance, for some forms of disease, the patient drinks the native hot water of Baden-Baden, with a spoonful of salt from the Carlsbad springs dissolved in it.

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'Were you asked to tea?' she demanded, tying an apron over her neat black frock, and standing with a spoonful of the leaf poised over the pot.

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He passed his tongue over a spoonful of preserves, and stuck his teeth into the sticky pastry of Mme.

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