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Definition: Spoonful |
SpoonfulNoun1. As much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spoonful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonym: SpoonfulSynonym: spoon (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Quantity | Armful, handful, mouthful, spoonful, capful; stock, batch, lot, dose; yaffle. |
Smallness | Nutshell; thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful; fragment; fraction; (part); drop in the ocean. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Spoonful |
| English words defined with "spoonful": Cochleare ♦ drop scone ♦ griddlecake ♦ Scotch pancake, Spoonfuls. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You know what they say, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. (Daria; writing credit: Glenn Eichler; Peggy Nicoll) | |
Song Titles | A Spoonful of Sugar (performing artist: Mary Poppins) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [showing a spoonful of a substance being added to a glass filled with a liquid]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Just a spoonful, Jim!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | However, Bruno instantly put a large spoonful of soup into its mouth, and the poor little thing coughed violently for some time. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | A helot of Agesilaus made us a dish of Spartan broth, but I was not able to get down a second spoonful. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Spoonful" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Spoonful" is used about 122 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 122 | 29,069 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "spoonful": coffee-spoonful, dessert-spoonful, salt-spoonful, tea-spoonful. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lovin spoonful | 146 |
spoonful | 28 |
lovin spoonful lyrics | 25 |
loving spoonful | 18 |
kiss spoonful | 8 |
discography lovin spoonful | 5 |
spoonful sugar | 4 |
lyrics spoonful sugar | 3 |
city in lovin spoonful summer | 3 |
loving lyrics spoonful | 3 |
lovin spoonful tab | 2 |
guitar lovin spoonful tab | 2 |
lovin lyrics song spoonful | 2 |
believe in lovin magic spoonful | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "spoonful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | një lugë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مل ء ملعقة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | една лъжица. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 一匙的量 (Spoonfuls), 一匙 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | plná lžíce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lusikallinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cuillerée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Löffel (bucket, ear, lug, lug-hole, shovel, spoon, spoons, teaspoon, teaspoons). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κουταλιά (scoopfull). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kanálnyi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cucchiaiata (scoop, tablespoonful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 한 (Spoonfuls). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lane spein (teaspoonful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oonfulspay colherada. (various references) lingurã (bail, shovel, spoon, tablespoon, tablespoonful). (various references) полная ложка. (various references) puna kašika. (various references) cucharada (tablespoon, tablespoonful, tablespoonsful). (various references) sked (spoon). (various references) kaşık dolusu (spoonfuls). (various references) повна ложка. (various references) llwyaid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spoonful": spoonfuls. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "spoonful": dessertspoonful, tablespoonful, teaspoonful. (additional references) | |
Words containing "spoonful": dessertspoonfuls, tablespoonfuls, teaspoonfuls. (additional references) | |
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"Spoonful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scoopful, songful, spoonfull. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spoonful" (pronounced spuw"nfuh'l) |
| 3 | -f uh' l | bagful, handful, mouthful, pocketful, roomful. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-l-n-o-o-p-s-u" | |
-3 letters: flops, fools, fouls, loofs, loons, loops, loups, nolos, polos, poofs, pools, poons, poufs, sloop, snool, snoop, solon, spoof, spool, spoon, sulfo. | |
-4 letters: flop, flus, fons, fool, fops, foul, funs, loof, loon, loop, loos, lops, loup, nolo, nous, onus, oops, opus, plus, polo, pols, pons, poof, pool, poon, pouf, puls, puns, slop, solo. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-l-n-o-o-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: spoonfuls, spoonsful. | |
+3 letters: teaspoonful. | |
+4 letters: teaspoonfuls, teaspoonsful. | |
+5 letters: fluoroscoping, tablespoonful. | |
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