Word.ws English Dictionary

breakfastcupful

breakfastcupful noun: the amount that fits in a breakfastcup.

Noun

breakfastcupful (plural breakfastcupfuls or breakfastcupsful)

  1. The amount that fits in a breakfastcup.
    • A breakfastcupful of new milk, with a slice of bread broken up and soaked in it.1785, Isaac Burney Yeo, Food in health and disease, page 311
    • Wash a breakfastcupful in warm water, and then put the rice in a tolerably large saucepan, with two breakfastcupsful of water, 1oz. butter, and half a teaspoonful of salt.1887 October 1, Queen [pseudonym], “Eggs with Rice and Tomato”, in Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chronicle, number 5545, page 12

Forms of breakfastcupful

pluralbreakfastcupfuls
pluralbreakfastcupsful

Origin of breakfastcupful

From breakfastcup + -ful.

Questions about breakfastcupful

What does breakfastcupful mean?
Breakfastcupful means the amount that fits in a breakfastcup.
What part of speech is breakfastcupful?
Breakfastcupful is a noun.
What is the plural of breakfastcupful?
The plural of breakfastcupful is breakfastcupfuls.

Words near breakfastcupful in the dictionary

  1. breakfast-mate
  2. breakfast-mates
  3. breakfast-time
  4. breakfast-times
  5. breakfastcup
  6. breakfastcupful
  7. breakfastcupfuls
  8. breakfastcups
  9. breakfastcupsful
  10. breakfasted
  11. breakfasted in bed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: breakfastcupful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “breakfastcupful.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/breakfastcupful. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.