spoonful
noun/ˈspuːnfəl/ · /ˈspuːnfʊl/
Etymology From Middle English sponeful, sponefull, sponful, spone-ful, equivalent to spoon + -ful.
1
The amount that a spoon will hold, either level or heaped.
- But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
- Derived terms
- a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down