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breakfastcup en · NOUN

Etymology

From breakfast + cup.

Meanings

1. (dated) A relatively large cup for serving tea, coffee, etc. with breakfast.
   • Take three-quarter breakfastcup flour, two and a half tablespoons butter, cold water, two eggs, half a breakfastcup sugar, one tablespoon cornflour, two lemons, a quarter pint cold water, two tablespoons sugar. 1934, The Homestead, numbers 961-985, page 11:
   • One of the earliest experiments demonstrating the existence of a seed bank was carried out by Darwin. He collected a breakfastcup of mud from the edge of a pond and monitored the emergence of seedlings from dormant seeds in the sample […] 2017, Jaime Kigel, Seed Development and Germination:

Forms

Deriveds

breakfastcupful