"soupful" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From soup + -ful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|soup|ful|pos=noun}} soup + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun|!}} soupful (plural not attested)
  1. (rare, chiefly figuratively) As much as soup has. Tags: figuratively, no-plural, rare

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          "ref": "2005 February 18, Pam Harbaugh, “Knives go flying in ‘Cookin’”, in Florida Today, page 1E",
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          "ref": "2018, Ed Wagemann, edited by Anne Moss, Gentrification: The Early Works of Ed Wagemann, page 56",
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