Mouthful
['maʊθfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['maʊθ'fʊl]
Definition
(n.) As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.
(n.) Hence, a small quantity.
Typist: Wesley
Examples
- While there's a handful of fire or a mouthful of bed in this present roof, you're fully welcome to your share on it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Have the goodness to give me a little glass of old cognac, and a mouthful of cool fresh water, madame. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I took another mouthful and some cheese and a rinse of wine. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I shall take a mere mouthful of ham and a glass of ale, he said, reassuringly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Their geese and turkeys I usually ate at a mouthful, and I confess they far exceed ours. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- A mouthful did it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- When it was given him, he drank his Majesty's health and compliments of the season, and took it all at a mouthful and smacked his lips. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Let us open the window a bit and get a mouthful of air. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He never ate a mouthful of food on the journey except the grass he could pick within the length of his picket rope. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Then, withdrawing his hand and swallowing his mouthful of chop, he said to Stephen: 'Now you know, this good lady is a born lady, a high lady. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Mr. Bounderby stayed her, by holding a mouthful of chop in suspension before swallowing it, and putting out his left hand. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- A dish of their meat was a good mouthful, and a barrel of their liquor a reasonable draught. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It was very hot and at the first mouthful I had to take a drink of beer to cool my mouth. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We shall have time for a mouthful of dinner before we need go. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr Kibble, an unctuous broad man of few words and many mouthfuls, said, more briefly than pointedly, raising his ale to his lips: 'Same to you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Checker: Vernon