From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishspoonfulspoon‧ful /ˈspuːnfʊl/ noun [countable] DFAMOUNTthe amount that a spoon will holdspoonful of Two spoonfuls of sugar, please.
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spoonful• Add a spoonful of baking soda to the red cabbage water.• Place a spoonful of beans in the bottom of each tin.• Place a spoonful of the mushroom mixture in the centre of each top piece of filo.• All in a delicious fruity tasting daily spoonful.• In his cup, a lump of sugar, a dusty spoonful of Pream.• Where quantities are measured in spoonfuls we mean a level spoonful unless otherwise indicated.• She stopped cooking, and for days the boy and his sisters ate stale bread and tamarind jam by the spoonful.spoonful of• a spoonful of sugar 