Crossword clues for spoonful
spoonful
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spoonful \Spoon"ful\ (-f[usd]l), n.; pl. Spoonfuls (-f[usd]lz).
The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful.
Hence, a small quantity.
--Arbuthnot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from spoon (n.) + -ful.
Wiktionary
n. The amount that a spoon will hold, either level or heaped.
WordNet
n. as much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar" [syn: spoon]
Wikipedia
"Spoonful" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded in 1960 by Howlin' Wolf. Called "a stark and haunting work", it is one of Dixon's best known and most interpreted songs. Etta James had a pop and R&B record chart hit with "Spoonful" in 1961, and it was popularized in the late 1960s by the British rock group Cream.
Spoonful is a Willie Dixon song covered by Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Cream
- measuring spoon
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- Spoonful, album by Jimmy Witherspoon
- Spoonful, album by John Hammond, Jr.
- Spoonful, album by Will Hoge
Usage examples of "spoonful".
Angela reached for the sugar and sprinkled a spoonful of it into the bowl as the beater churned up the cream.
He was hardly an epicurean, but he surely would have noticed the first time he slurped up a spoonful of Malathion or Sevin.
Angels last, in countless milliards, one for every soul, one perhaps for every living being, down to the atomies that a lens could show wriggling in a spoonful of garden dirt.
The smell of it was like the spicy winds of Arabia, that you read about in the Bible, and when you had taken a spoonful you felt as happy as if you had sellt a hundred yowes at twice their reasonable worth.
Then he cautiously uncorked a small bottle of dark blue glass and shook a spoonful of white crystals onto the middle of the handkerchief.
Pigache, a spoonful of which Castaing had given to Auguste Ballet, had been analysed and showed no trace of poison.
She kept a supply of vanilla ice cream loaded with butterfat in the freezer, and if she allowed small spoonfuls to melt on her tongue, one after another, until she could hold no more, it was the easiest way to absorb nourishment.
Wrenching her gaze from the glitter, Diane concentrated on a plate of turtle soup, but sidled a nod to Cardiff, between spoonfuls.
Add two dessertspoonfuls of onions chopped fine, a dessertspoonful of whole pepper, one of allspice, one of cloves, and half a spoonful of cayenne pepper.
Beat to a smooth, thin batter two eggs, three spoonfuls of milk and a little flour, season, dip each piece of the chicken in this batter and fry a rich brown in the heated butter.
Mina dumped another spoonful of manomin into her bowl before throwing her coat around her shoulders and trudging back to her cabin.
It was crowded, but very nesty, and as sweet as a spoonful of molasses.
When the door did open it was to blinding light and there stood in it no ministress in white but a demandadero in stained and wrinkled khakis bearing a metal messtray with a double spoonful of pozole spilled over it and a glass of orange soda-water.
Then she slowly ate a spoonful of sherbert as though it were the only thing keeping her alive.
The maize porridge was unsalted and unflavored pap, and the portion no more than three spoonfuls, but the Captain expected fulsome acknowledgment of his generosity.