What does Spoonful mean?

Definitions for Spoonful
ˈspun fʊlspoon·ful

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. spoon, spoonfulnoun

    as much as a spoon will hold

    "he added two spoons of sugar"

Wiktionary

  1. spoonfulnoun

    the amount that a spoon will hold, either level or heaped

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Spoonfulnoun

    Etymology: spoon and full.

    Prescribe him, before he do use the receipt, that he take such a pill, or a spoonful of liquor. Francis Bacon.

    Surely the choice and measure of the materials of which the whole body is composed, and what we take daily by pounds, is at least of as much importance as of what we take seldom, and only by grains and spoonfuls. Arbuthnot.

Wikipedia

  1. Spoonful

    Spoonful is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and first recorded in 1960 by Howlin' Wolf. Called "a stark and haunting work", it is one of Dixon's best known and most interpreted songs. Etta James and Harvey Fuqua had a pop and R&B record chart hit with their duet cover of "Spoonful" in 1961, and it was popularized in the late 1960s by the British rock group Cream.

ChatGPT

  1. spoonful

    A spoonful refers to a generic measurement of an amount which a standard spoon can hold, typically used in cooking and serving food. It can also be used figuratively, as in "a spoonful of kindness". Depending on the context, it can refer to a tablespoon, teaspoon, or serving spoon's capacity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Spoonfulnoun

    the quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful

  2. Spoonfulnoun

    hence, a small quantity

Wikidata

  1. Spoonful

    "Spoonful" is a blues standard written by Willie Dixon and first recorded in 1960 by Howlin' Wolf. It is loosely based on "A Spoonful Blues", a song recorded in 1929 by Charley Patton, itself related to "All I Want Is A Spoonful" by Papa Charlie Jackson and "Cocaine Blues" by Luke Jordan. It presents men's sometimes violent search to satisfy their cravings. It uses "a spoonful" mostly as a metaphor to pleasures, which have been interpreted as sex, love or drugs, for different versions of song have varying stresses and allusions. "Spoonful" has been interpreted and recorded by a variety of artists.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Spoonful in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Spoonful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Spoonful in a Sentence

  1. Yiddish Proverb:

    If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

  2. Emily Blunt:

    A Spoonful of Sugar. the singing was the most beautiful, slow-burn collaboration. I was approached for this in 2015 and we didn't start shooting until 2017. So we really had about a year to work on it and the songs were so familiar to me in my bones by the time we even started rehearsing and prerecording them.

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