Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The amount that a teacup can hold.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun As much as a tea-cup will hold; as a definite quantity, four fluidounces, or one gill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun As much as a teacup can hold; enough to fill a teacup.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
unit of measure , thecapacity orvolume of ateacup .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun as much as a teacup will hold
Etymologies
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Examples
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He went into the kitchen and swallowed nearly a teacupful of Victory Gin.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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He went into the kitchen and swallowed nearly a teacupful of Victory Gin.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Winston poured out nearly a teacupful, nerved himself for a shock, and gulped it down like a dose of medicine.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Winston poured out nearly a teacupful, nerved himself for a shock, and gulped it down like a dose of medicine.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Boil a teacupful of tea in three pints of water for ten minutes with a heaped dessert-spoonful of soda.
Among the Tibetans Isabella Lucy 2004
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I suppose he must have used quite a teacupful of olive oil.
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“We had literally only a teacupful of water each day to wash in,” Jean said, which was “quite a hardship when we were covered from head to foot in white dust by the end of the day.”
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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“We had literally only a teacupful of water each day to wash in,” Jean said, which was “quite a hardship when we were covered from head to foot in white dust by the end of the day.”
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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Winston poured out nearly a teacupful, nerved himself for a shock, and gulped it down like a dose of medicine.
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
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He went into the kitchen and swallowed nearly a teacupful of Victory Gin.
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
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