See spoonful in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for spoonful meaning in English (6.6kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "sponeful"
},
"expansion": "Middle English sponeful",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "sponefull"
},
"expansion": "sponefull",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "sponful"
},
"expansion": "sponful",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spone-ful"
},
"expansion": "spone-ful",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "spoon",
"3": "ful",
"pos": "noun"
},
"expansion": "spoon + -ful",
"name": "suf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English sponeful, sponefull, sponful, spone-ful, equivalent to spoon + -ful.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spoonfuls",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "spoonsful",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "s",
"2": "spoonsful"
},
"expansion": "spoonful (plural spoonfuls or spoonsful)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English nouns suffixed with -ful",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "forkful"
},
{
"word": "knifeful"
},
{
"word": "ladleful"
},
{
"word": "sporkful"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"
},
{
"word": "a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax",
"text": "But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The amount that a spoon will hold, either level or heaped."
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"word": "coffeespoonful"
},
{
"word": "dessertspoonful"
},
{
"word": "eggspoonful"
},
{
"word": "saltspoonful"
},
{
"word": "serving spoonful"
},
{
"word": "soupspoonful"
},
{
"word": "tablespoonful"
},
{
"word": "teaspoonful"
}
],
"id": "en-spoonful-en-noun-z54mUabu",
"links": [
[
"amount",
"amount"
],
[
"spoon",
"spoon"
],
[
"level",
"level"
],
[
"heaped",
"heaped"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "ملء ملعقَة"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "koilarakada"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "lǎžica",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лъжица"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cullerada"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yī chí de liàng",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "一匙的量"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lžíce"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lžička"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "skefuld"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "lepel"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "lepelvol"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "ĉerpeto"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "lusikatäis"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "lusikallinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cuillerée"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Löffelvoll"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "koutaliá",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "κουταλιά"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "kanálnyi"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "skeið"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "skeiðarfylli"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "kulieredo"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "lusikalliin"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "lusikka"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lán spúnóige"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cucchiaiata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cucchiaio"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "supūn-ippai",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "スプーン一杯"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sutgarak hana gadeuk",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "숟가락 하나 가득"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "šaukštas"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lane spein"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "camcābhar",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "चमचाभर"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"Jersey",
"feminine"
],
"word": "tchul'lée"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Läpelvoll"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "colherada"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lóžka",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ло́жка"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "làn na spàine"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cucharada"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "sked"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "gariṭeḍu",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "గరిటెడు"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "một muổng"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈspuːnfəl/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈspuːnfʊl/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈspʌnfʊl/",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "spoonful"
}
{
"coordinate_terms": [
{
"word": "forkful"
},
{
"word": "knifeful"
},
{
"word": "ladleful"
},
{
"word": "sporkful"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"
},
{
"word": "a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "sponeful"
},
"expansion": "Middle English sponeful",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "sponefull"
},
"expansion": "sponefull",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "sponful"
},
"expansion": "sponful",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "spone-ful"
},
"expansion": "spone-ful",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "spoon",
"3": "ful",
"pos": "noun"
},
"expansion": "spoon + -ful",
"name": "suf"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English sponeful, sponefull, sponful, spone-ful, equivalent to spoon + -ful.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "spoonfuls",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "spoonsful",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "s",
"2": "spoonsful"
},
"expansion": "spoonful (plural spoonfuls or spoonsful)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"hyponyms": [
{
"word": "coffeespoonful"
},
{
"word": "dessertspoonful"
},
{
"word": "eggspoonful"
},
{
"word": "saltspoonful"
},
{
"word": "serving spoonful"
},
{
"word": "soupspoonful"
},
{
"word": "tablespoonful"
},
{
"word": "teaspoonful"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English nouns suffixed with -ful",
"English nouns with irregular plurals",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax",
"text": "But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The amount that a spoon will hold, either level or heaped."
],
"links": [
[
"amount",
"amount"
],
[
"spoon",
"spoon"
],
[
"level",
"level"
],
[
"heaped",
"heaped"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈspuːnfəl/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈspuːnfʊl/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈspʌnfʊl/",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "ملء ملعقَة"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "koilarakada"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "lǎžica",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лъжица"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cullerada"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yī chí de liàng",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "一匙的量"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lžíce"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lžička"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "skefuld"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "lepel"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "lepelvol"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "ĉerpeto"
},
{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "lusikatäis"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "lusikallinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cuillerée"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Löffelvoll"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "koutaliá",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "κουταλιά"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "kanálnyi"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "skeið"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "skeiðarfylli"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "kulieredo"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "lusikalliin"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "lusikka"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lán spúnóige"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cucchiaiata"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cucchiaio"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "supūn-ippai",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "スプーン一杯"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "sutgarak hana gadeuk",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "숟가락 하나 가득"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "šaukštas"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lane spein"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "camcābhar",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "चमचाभर"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"Jersey",
"feminine"
],
"word": "tchul'lée"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Läpelvoll"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "colherada"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lóžka",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ло́жка"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "làn na spàine"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cucharada"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "sked"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "gariṭeḍu",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "గరిటెడు"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "amount a spoon will hold",
"word": "một muổng"
}
],
"word": "spoonful"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.