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kettleful

kettleful noun: an amount sufficient to fill a kettle, particularly of a kettle used for cooking.

Noun

kettleful (plural kettlefuls or kettlesful)

  1. An amount sufficient to fill a kettle, particularly of a kettle used for cooking.
    • Mother Holle led her, too, to the great door; but while she was standing beneath it, instead of the gold a big kettleful of pitch was emptied over her.1922, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm's Fairy Stories

Forms of kettleful

pluralkettlefuls
pluralkettlesful

Origin of kettleful

* from kettle + -ful

Questions about kettleful

What does kettleful mean?
Kettleful means an amount sufficient to fill a kettle, particularly of a kettle used for cooking.
What part of speech is kettleful?
Kettleful is a noun.
What is the plural of kettleful?
The plural of kettleful is kettlefuls.

Words near kettleful in the dictionary

  1. kettledrum
  2. kettledrummer
  3. kettledrummers
  4. kettledrumming
  5. kettledrums
  6. kettleful
  7. kettlefuls
  8. kettlelike
  9. kettleman
  10. Kettleman City
  11. kettlemen

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