thimbleful
nounEtymology From thimble + -ful.
1
As much as a thimble will hold.
2
Broadly A small amount of liquid, especially alcoholic spirits.
- “Just the tiniest thimbleful for me,” Annie said, overplaying it, I thought, since she lived on vodka.1988, Edmund White, chapter 4, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994: