Teaspoonful

Pronunciation

Origin

teaspoon + -ful

Full definition of teaspoonful

Noun

1. A unit of capacity equal to the amount a teaspoon can hold which is taken approximately as 5ml.
• Wodehouse Offing|XVII|“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.”

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