teaspoonful
noun/ˈtiːspuːnfəl/
Etymology From teaspoon + -ful.
1
A unit of capacity equal to the amount a teaspoon can hold which is taken approximately as 5 ml.
- “When I say mind,” said the blood relation, “I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.”1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC: