Meanings
plural breakfastcupfuls · plural breakfastcupsful
- The amount that fits in a breakfastcup.
A breakfastcupful of new milk, with a slice of bread broken up and soaked in it.
1785, Isaac Burney Yeo, Food in health and disease, page 3111 more example
Wash a breakfastcupful in warm water, and then put the rice in a tolerably large saucepan, with two breakfastcupsful of water, 1oz. butter, and half a teaspoonful of salt.
1887 October 1, Queen [pseudonym], “Eggs with Rice and Tomato”, in Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chronicle, number 5545, page 12
Origin
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