spoonful

noun
/ˈspuːnfəl/

Etymology

From Middle English sponeful, sponefull, sponful, spone-ful, equivalent to spoon + -ful.

  1. inherited from sponeful

Definitions

  1. The amount that a spoon will hold, either level or heaped.

    • But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at spoonful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01spoonful02spoon03ladle04molten05red-hot06glows07glow08emit09machine10airplane

A definitional loop anchored at spoonful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at spoonful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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