teaspoonful

English

Alternative forms

• tea spoonful
• tea-spoonful

Etymology

From teaspoon +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːspuːnfəl/

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Noun

teaspoonful (plural teaspoonfuls or teaspoonsful)

1. A unit of capacity equal to the amount a teaspoon can hold which is taken approximately as 5 ml.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     “When I say mind,” said the blood relation, “I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.”

Synonyms

• teaspoon, tsp

Hypernyms

• spoonful

Coordinate terms

• See spoonful § Hyponyms

Translations

unit of capacity

• Catalan: culleradeta (ca) f
• Danish: teskefuld c
• Finnish: teelusikallinen
• Hungarian: kávéskanálnyi
• Irish: lán taespúnóige m, taespúnóg f
• Russian: ча́йная ло́жка f (čájnaja lóžka)
• Spanish: cucharadita (es)