tureenful

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noun

As much as a tureen will hold.

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Meanings

nountureenful (plural tureenfuls or tureensful)

plural tureenfuls · plural tureensful

  1. As much as a tureen will hold.

    “I was properly impressed. Most properly. I yawned openly. ‘Strict supervision, and play them off one against the other,’ said The Mussuck, shoveling down his ice by tureenfuls, I assure you. ‘That, Mrs. Hauksbee, is the secret of our Government.’”

    1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 11

Origin

From tureen + -ful.

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APA

tureenful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tureenful

MLA

“tureenful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tureenful. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tureenful,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tureenful.

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