breakfastcupful

English

Etymology

breakfastcup +‎ -ful

Noun

breakfastcupful (plural breakfastcupfuls or breakfastcupsful)

  1. The amount that fits in a breakfastcup.
    • 1785, Isaac Burney Yeo, Food in health and disease, page 311:
      A breakfastcupful of new milk, with a slice of bread broken up and soaked in it.
    • 1887 October 1, Queen [pseudonym], “Eggs with Rice and Tomato”, in Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chronicle, number 5545, page 12:
      Wash a breakfastcupful in warm water, and then put the rice in a tolerably large saucepan, with two breakfastcupsful of water, 1oz. butter, and half a teaspoonful of salt.
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