eyecupful

plural eyecupfuls

1. The amount that an eyecup can hold.

   Do you think anybody with an eyecupful of brains would stay here if he could get away?

   1919 March 8, Charles E. Van Loan, “The Hasher”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 191, number 36, Philadelphia, Pa.: Curtis Publishing Company, page 5, column 2

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   In eye troubles, however, the California Fluid Extract of Eucalyptus works miracles and should be used as a frequent eyewash, two drops of the fluid to an eyecupful of warm water.

   1916 January, O[toman] Z[ar-Adusht] H[a’nish], “Season Hints”, in Mazdaznan, volume 15, number 1, Los Angeles, Calif.: Mazdaznan Press, page 16

   Cleanse the eyes with clear water in an eyecup; or use a boric acid solution, or a few grains of salt added to the eyecupful of cold water.

   1927 June 5, Viola Paris, “Beauty and You: Do You Make the Most of Your Eyes?”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., section “The Eyes Themselves Are Most Important”, page 8, column 4

   I had just finished the first appetizing eyecupful of wine when my waitress took the stopper out of the decanter and, with the prettiest gesture imaginable, asked me if I would have some more.

   1934 March, Alexander Woollcott, “How to Go to Japan”, in While Rome Burns, New York, N.Y.: While Rome Burns, published August 1936, section “Your Correspondent”, page 262

   They drink quantities of beer and also their own sake (rice wine) taken in eyecupfuls, thirty or forty of which will produce one of the pleasantest suspensions in the realm of alcohol.

   1936 September, “The Gentlemen of Japan”, in Fortune, page 59

   Another good eye wash is made by adding two or three drops of freshly squeezed lemon juice to a small eye[-]cupful of distilled water.

   1946, Lelord Kordel, Health: The Easy Way, New York, N.Y.: Arden Book Company, page 265

   Synonyms: eyebathful