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DISHFUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dishful mean?
• DISHFUL (noun)
The noun DISHFUL has 1 sense:
1. the quantity that a dish will hold
Familiarity information: DISHFUL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quantity that a dish will hold
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
dish; dishful
Context example:
they served me a dish of rice
Hypernyms ("dishful" is a kind of...):
containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)
Context examples
And when she kept on begging, she said at last, to get rid of her, I will throw this dishful of peas into the ash-heap, and if in two hours’ time you have picked them all out, you shall go to the feast too.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
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