From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishplatefulplate‧ful /ˈpleɪtfʊl/ noun [countable] AMOUNTall the food that is on a plateplateful of a plateful of toast
Examples from the Corpus
plateful• Consider a plateful of baked beans on toast.• Politely declining a plateful, I retreated upstairs for a more conventional lunch.• It is like trying to get a firm grip on a plateful of pudding.• At three fifteen Mavis brought us in our tea on a tray with a plateful of shortbread biscuits.• If that sounds like a cutting-edge plateful, it is.• All they seemed interested in was guzzling platefuls of sausages and going back to the counter for more.• Eventually the waitress cleared away Anna's plateful of cold bacon. 