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teaspoonful
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun teaspoonful has 1 sense
- teaspoonful(n = noun.quantity) teaspoon - as much as a teaspoon will hold; Array is a kind of containerful
CIDE DICTIONARY
teaspoonful, n.
As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon. In cooking, it is usually estimated as 4.9 milliliters, which is t.
"In the 1890 dictionary, it was defined as a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful."
[1913 Webster]
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