waterglassful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
As much as a water glass will hold.
Example Sentences
- "[…]add gently a table-spoonful of flour (stirring all the while), and a water-glassful of good stock, with salt and pepper;"
- "A waterglassful, five fluid ounces, would hold in solution about 0.8 grains of strychnia."
- "Fasting stomach: two waterglassfuls of contents."
- "He poured himself half a waterglassful of the whiskey out of the pint bottle which he had gone out to buy."
- "When the seeds begin to crackle—in about a minute—pour four waterglassfuls of cold water over them."
- "that settled her for a bit and we sat for a bit and we sat drinking down the waterglassfuls of wine, port."
Etymology
From water glass + -ful.