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dipperfuls

dipperfuls is the plural of dipperful.

Meaning of dipperful

Noun

dipperful (plural dipperfuls or dippersful)

  1. (US) As much as a dipper will hold; a cupful.
    • He [the horse-doctor] made up a bucket of bran-mash, and said a dipperful of it every two hours, alternated with a drench with turpentine and axle-grease in it, would either knock my ailments out of men in twenty-four hours, or so interest me in other ways as to make me forget they were on the...1899 October, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter III, in Christian Science […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published February 1907, →OCLC, book I, page 28

Questions about dipperfuls

What is dipperfuls the plural of?
Dipperfuls is the plural of dipperful.

Words near dipperfuls in the dictionary

  1. Dippel's oil
  2. dipper
  3. dipper well
  4. dipper wells
  5. dipperful
  6. dipperfuls
  7. dippers
  8. dippersful
  9. dippest
  10. dippeth
  11. Dippie

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