breakfastcup

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noun

A relatively large cup for serving tea, coffee, etc. with breakfast.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

nounbreakfastcup (plural breakfastcups)

plural breakfastcups

  1. datedA relatively large cup for serving tea, coffee, etc. with breakfast.

    Take three-quarter breakfastcup flour, two and a half tablespoons butter, cold water, two eggs, half a breakfastcup sugar, one tablespoon cornflour, two lemons, a quarter pint cold water, two tablespoons sugar.

    1934, The Homestead, numbers 961-985, page 11
    1 more example

    One of the earliest experiments demonstrating the existence of a seed bank was carried out by Darwin. He collected a breakfastcup of mud from the edge of a pond and monitored the emergence of seedlings from dormant seeds in the sample […]

    2017, Jaime Kigel, Seed Development and Germination

Origin

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