Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun As much as a
platter will hold.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word platterful.
Examples
-
Here a serving could be (and often is) an entire platterful!
Mary Ann Esposito: Tips for World Pasta Day Mary Ann Esposito 2010
-
Here a serving could be (and often is) an entire platterful!
Mary Ann Esposito: Tips for World Pasta Day Mary Ann Esposito 2010
-
'You're getting a platterful from upstairs, I expect.'
With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005
-
“Dinner,” Dinah said, bringing in a platterful of steaks from the porch, “is served.”
A Grave Denied Stabenow, Dana 2003
-
Afterwards a platterful of mustard was brought before every one of them, and thus they made good the proverb, After meat comes mustard.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
-
Come hither, and I will show thee in this platterful of fair fountain-water thy future wife lechering and sercroupierizing it with two swaggering ruffians, one after another.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
-
Come hither, and I will show thee in this platterful of fair fountain-water thy future wife lechering and sercroupierizing it with two swaggering ruffians, one after another.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
-
There have you a large platterful of dreams, make thereupon good cheer, and, if you please, spare not to interpret them according to the understanding which you may have in them.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
-
Afterwards a platterful of mustard was brought before every one of them, and thus they made good the proverb, After meat comes mustard.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
-
There have you a large platterful of dreams, make thereupon good cheer, and, if you please, spare not to interpret them according to the understanding which you may have in them.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.