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strawful

strawful noun: enough to fill a drinking straw.

Noun

strawful (plural strawfuls or strawsful)

  1. Enough to fill a drinking straw.
    • And yet, you would sip a tiny strawful of God’s Nectar once a day for a few minutes when actually you could drink your fill of Life and Love, and always keep your spiritual thirst quenched so gratifyingly.1959, The Scribe, The Advancing Ego: A Perpetual Text, Boston, Mass.: Meador Publishing Company, page 39
    • Placing a finger over the open end of the straw after it has been immersed in the liquid allows withdrawal of a strawful.1966, Paul Franz Brandwein, Concepts in Science, Harcourt, Brace & World, page 49

Forms of strawful

pluralstrawfuls
pluralstrawsful

Origin of strawful

From straw + -ful.

Words that rhyme with strawful

Questions about strawful

What does strawful mean?
Strawful means enough to fill a drinking straw.
What part of speech is strawful?
Strawful is a noun.
What is the plural of strawful?
The plural of strawful is strawfuls.

Words near strawful in the dictionary

  1. strawen
  2. strawflower
  3. strawflowers
  4. strawfork
  5. strawforks
  6. strawful
  7. strawfuls
  8. strawhat
  9. strawhats
  10. strawhatted
  11. strawhead

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