biteful
nounEtymology From bite + -ful.
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The amount eaten in a single bite.
- How many times have you eaten the last two bitesful when you actually did not want them?1961 March 1, “Clean-Plate Club poor nutritionally”, in Mason City Globe-Gazette, volume 99, Mason City, Iowa, page 17:
- This corn is as sweet as sweet corn gets . . . big plump ears, with juice-packed kernels . . . row after row of blissful bitesful.1964 May 13, “Stop-n-Shop Produce … Best Because It’s “Triple-Checked”: 24 Karat Golden Corn… like buried treasure”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 214, number 34,812, Sacramento, Calif., page F-9:
4 more examples
- […] the ritual aspect is attractive and the individual may, dipping first in one, then in the other, season to taste, biteful by biteful.1974, Richard Olney, Simple French Food, 40th anniversary edition, New York, N.Y.: Collier Books, published 1992, →ISBN, page 115:
- Working independently, each made her way from the main dishes through the desserts, sampling only a few bitesful from each.1978 May 25, Lorrie Guttman, “Cookoff judges face feast of dairy foods”, in Tallahassee Democrat, 73rd year, number 144, page 1E:
- Those underlings at the SIP and the sacrifices the Associated Press sent to The Man on the Corner know the meaning of losing weight in large bitesful.1981 May 24, John Eberline, “The Man on the Corner”, in South Idaho Press, volume 77, number 46, Burley, Ida., page 4:
- My mother made broth and milk toast and custard and fed my father biteful by biteful.1982, Joan Brady, The Unmaking of a Dancer: An Unconventional Life, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 48: