eggspoonful

Noun

eggspoonful (plural eggspoonfuls or eggspoonsful)

1. The amount that an egg spoon will hold.
   • By this time the 7-weeks-old 5½-lb. baby was 10½ weeks, and weighed 7lbs. 10 oz., and the milk had been increased by 1 oz. to the pint of food. Now started Virol 1 eggspoonful per day, increasing the amount to 3 eggspoonfuls in 24 hours.[1912], Sarah Jane Hughes, “[Particulars of Cases Treated as in Previous Chapter.] Case No. 6.”, in Feeding and Care of Infants and Children: With Special Reference to Cases of Difficult Digestion...
   • In the ‘Wigan Observer’ of September 20th, there is an account of an inquest on a child, held at Platt Bridge. The mother had given a child of 5 weeks old two eggspoonsful of a mixture of laudanum [opium tincture] and aniseed, which she had heard from an 11-year-old girl that it was used to keep...1914 September, “A Coomfert”, in Kenneth Ward, The World of William Wickham: The Biography and Photography of a Remarkable Victorian, Havant, Hants.: Ian Harrap at The Pallant Press, published 1981...