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breakfastcup

noun

Etymology

From breakfast + cup.

  1. derived from *gew-✻ — “to bend, curve, arch”
  2. inherited from *kuppaz✻
  3. inherited from *kopp✻ — “round object, bowl, vessel, knoll, summit, crown of the head”
  4. derived from *kewp-✻ — “a hollow”
  5. derived from cūpa — “tub, cask”
  6. derived from cuppa
  7. inherited from copp — “cup, vessel”
  8. inherited from cuppe — “cup”
  9. inherited from cuppe
  10. compounded as breakfastcup — “breakfast + cup”

Definitions

  1. A relatively large cup for serving tea, coffee, etc. with breakfast.

    • Take three-quarter breakfastcup flour, two and a half tablespoons butter, cold water, two eggs, half a breakfastcup sugar, one tablespoon cornflour, two lemons, a quarter pint cold water, two tablespoons sugar.
    • One of the earliest experiments demonstrating the existence of a seed bank was carried out by Darwin. He collected a breakfastcup of mud from the edge of a pond and monitored the emergence of seedlings from dormant seeds in the sample […]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA