breakfastcup
breakfastcup noun: a relatively large cup for serving tea, coffee, etc. with breakfast.
Noun
breakfastcup (plural breakfastcups)
- A relatively large cup for serving tea, coffee, etc. with breakfast.
- Take three-quarter breakfastcup flour, two and a half tablespoons butter, cold water, two eggs, half a breakfastcup sugar, one tablespoon cornflour, two lemons, a quarter pint cold water, two tablespoons sugar.1934, The Homestead, numbers 961-985, page 11
- One of the earliest experiments demonstrating the existence of a seed bank was carried out by Darwin. He collected a breakfastcup of mud from the edge of a pond and monitored the emergence of seedlings from dormant seeds in the sample […]2017, Jaime Kigel, Seed Development and Germination
Forms of breakfastcup
| plural | breakfastcups |
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Origin of breakfastcup
From breakfast + cup.
Words formed from breakfastcup
Questions about breakfastcup
- What does breakfastcup mean?
- Breakfastcup means a relatively large cup for serving tea, coffee, etc. with breakfast.
- What part of speech is breakfastcup?
- Breakfastcup is a noun.
- What is the plural of breakfastcup?
- The plural of breakfastcup is breakfastcups.
Words near breakfastcup in the dictionary
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