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biteful

biteful noun: the amount eaten in a single bite.

Noun

biteful (plural bitefuls or bitesful)

  1. The amount eaten in a single bite.
    • How many times have you eaten the last two bitesful when you actually did not want them?1961 March 1, “Clean-Plate Club poor nutritionally”, in Mason City Globe-Gazette, volume 99, Mason City, Iowa, page 17
    • This corn is as sweet as sweet corn gets . . . big plump ears, with juice-packed kernels . . . row after row of blissful bitesful.1964 May 13, “Stop-n-Shop Produce … Best Because It’s “Triple-Checked”: 24 Karat Golden Corn… like buried treasure”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 214, number 34,812, Sacramento, Calif., page F-9

Examples of biteful in a sentence

  • […] the ritual aspect is attractive and the individual may, dipping first in one, then in the other, season to taste, biteful by biteful.1974, Richard Olney, Simple French Food, 40th anniversary edition, New York, N.Y.: Collier Books, published 1992, →ISBN, page 115:
  • My mother made broth and milk toast and custard and fed my father biteful by biteful.1982, Joan Brady, The Unmaking of a Dancer: An Unconventional Life, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 48:
  • Begin your meal with soup and/or a few bitefuls of grain, then alternate grain with the most yang food before you.1984, Lima Ohsawa, Macrobiotic Cuisine, Japan Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 23:
  • “You know,” she mumbled around a huge, heavenly biteful, “I’ve been everywhere in this world.1999, Jill Shalvis, Who’s the Boss?, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 124:

Forms of biteful

pluralbitefuls
pluralbitesful

Origin of biteful

From bite + -ful.

Questions about biteful

What does biteful mean?
Biteful means the amount eaten in a single bite.
How do you use biteful in a sentence?
[…] the ritual aspect is attractive and the individual may, dipping first in one, then in the other, season to taste, biteful by biteful.
What part of speech is biteful?
Biteful is a noun.
What is the plural of biteful?
The plural of biteful is bitefuls.

Words near biteful in the dictionary

  1. bited
  2. bitee
  3. bitees
  4. biteforce
  5. biteforces
  6. biteful
  7. bitefuls
  8. bitegmic
  9. biteless
  10. bitelomeric
  11. bitemark

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