soupspoonful

Definition

The amount that may be held by a soupspoon.

Etymology

From soupspoon + -ful.

Example Sentences

• "Add a soupspoonful of olive oil."
• "Two or three soupspoonsful of this solution in a quart of hot water may be used as an injection, morning and evening, to correct the fœtidity of leucorrhœic discharges which accompany some cases of endometritis, polypus, fibrous bodies, ulceration of the cervix uteri, or even simple vaginitis."
• "All he cured rapidly by the admistration^([sic]) of a solution of potassic iodide in the proportion of 2.5:100.0; of this three soupspoonsful, three times a day."