breakfastcupful
nounEtymology From breakfastcup + -ful.
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The amount that fits in a breakfastcup.
- A breakfastcupful of new milk, with a slice of bread broken up and soaked in it.1785, Isaac Burney Yeo, Food in health and disease, page 311:
- Wash a breakfastcupful in warm water, and then put the rice in a tolerably large saucepan, with two breakfastcupsful of water, 1oz. butter, and half a teaspoonful of salt.1887 October 1, Queen [pseudonym], “Eggs with Rice and Tomato”, in Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chronicle, number 5545, page 12: