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Spoonful   /spˈunfˌʊl/   Listen
Spoonful

noun
(pl. spoonfuls)
1.
As much as a spoon will hold.  Synonym: spoon.






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"Spoonful" Quotes from Famous Books



... "With a spoonful of quinine in epsom salts, taken raw, if you don't pay attention. Now listen to me." The doctor's tone ...
— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter

... he was so fond of his treacley spoonful it was a marvel he had not of his own accord jogged some one's memory and insisted ...
— In the Mist of the Mountains • Ethel Turner

... down to eat their porridge. The naughty little girl turned her back upon her sister, and put a large spoonful into ...
— Very Short Stories and Verses For Children • Mrs. W. K. Clifford

... Ralph took a spoonful or two of the broth, and a sip of the spirits, and then lay back and presently dozed off to sleep. Denis had followed the surgeons out ...
— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty

... half-hour's spell Stumpy was as dead as mutton, t'other dog was live and well. And the scientific person hurried off with utmost speed, Tested Johnson's drug and found it was a deadly poison-weed; Half a tumbler killed an emu, half a spoonful killed a goat, All the snakes on earth were harmless to that ...
— The Man from Snowy River • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson


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