Meanings
plural teaspoonfuls · plural teaspoonsful · alternative tea spoonful · alternative tea-spoonful
- A unit of capacity equal to the amount a teaspoon can hold which is taken approximately as 5 ml.
“When I say mind,” said the blood relation, “I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.”
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA unit of capacity equal to the amount a teaspoon can hold which is taken approximately as 5 ml.
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Translations
Catalan culleradeta
- culleradetaunit of capacity
Danish teskefuld
- teskefuldunit of capacity
Finnish teelusikallinen
- teelusikallinenunit of capacity
Hungarian kávéskanálnyi
- kávéskanálnyiunit of capacity
Irish lán taespúnóige, taespúnóg
- lán taespúnóigeunit of capacity
- taespúnógunit of capacity
Polish łyżeczka
- łyżeczkaunit of capacity
Russian ча́йная ло́жка
- ча́йная ло́жка (čájnaja lóžka)unit of capacity
Spanish cucharadita
- cucharaditaunit of capacity
Cite this entry
teaspoonful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/teaspoonful
“teaspoonful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/teaspoonful. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “teaspoonful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/teaspoonful.
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