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UK
/kˈʌpfəl/
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NOUN
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the quantity a cup will hold
he borrowed a cup of sugar
he drank a cup of coffee
How To Use cupful In A Sentence
- Most people, I think, may know how to make porridge; but it is useful to know that if you take 1 pint of water to each heaped-up breakfastcupful of Allinson breakfast oats, you have just the amount of water for a fairly firm porridge. Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes
- Clean rocks, plastic plants, etc in a bucket of warm water with a cupful of household bleach.
- Chamomile tea is an excellent stomachic when taken in moderate doses of half-a-teacupful at a [86] time. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
- The proportion of soda to molasses that can usually be relied on for hot breads and cakes is _1 teaspoonful of soda to 1 cupful of molasses_, or just twice the quantity of soda that is generally used with sour milk. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads
- Clean rocks, plastic plants, etc in a bucket of warm water with a cupful of household bleach.
- When the coffee smelled done, he turned off the camp stove, poured a tin cupful, and wedged the pot in the coals. ABSOLUTE ZERO
- Take three cantharides, and removing their head, feet, and wings, triturate their bodies in three cupfuls (cyathi) of water, and when the person who has drunk the draught complains of pain, let him have hot fomentations applied. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
- In this case, cupfuls of frontal lobe, corpus callosum and snowflake-unique collections of synapses that led Miss Mullens to curse out loud with words like “poot” and “jiminy” and yet have internal dialogue like a motherfucking stevedore, as I was to find out to my displeasure when her consciousness exploded into mine as I was lying in the attic, replete, about four hours later. Blood Lite II: Overbite
- A dog needs a ratio of two tablespoons lean ground meat per cupful of white rice cooked in chicken broth, fed at the rate of one cup per ten pounds of body weight.
- He was usually able to scrounge up enough from the empty boxes in the trash or put the bite on an unsuspecting transient, “borrowing” a cupful or two from someone who he didn't already “owe” from before. 25 Cents at a Time