coffeecupful

noun

Etymology

From coffeecup + -ful.

Definitions

  1. As much as a coffee cup will hold.

    • […]when the sirup begins to boil, add about a coffee-cupful of orange-flower water, and after it has boiled up two or three times, take it from the fire;
    • Draught with half a grain of opium: to drink through the day four coffeecupfuls of the following solution:—[…]
    • Two coffeecupsful brown sugar, / One coffeecupful butter, / One coffeecupful sweet milk,[…].

The neighborhood

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