noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a teaspoon/spoonful of sugar
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The drink contains seven teaspoons of sugar per can.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Add a spoonful of baking soda to the red cabbage water.
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All in a delicious fruity tasting daily spoonful .
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In his cup, a lump of sugar, a dusty spoonful of Pream.
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Place a spoonful of beans in the bottom of each tin.
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Place a spoonful of the mushroom mixture in the centre of each top piece of filo.
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She stopped cooking, and for days the boy and his sisters ate stale bread and tamarind jam by the spoonful .
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Where quantities are measured in spoonfuls we mean a level spoonful unless otherwise indicated.