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strawful en · NOUN

Etymology

From straw + -ful.

Meanings

1. Enough to fill a drinking straw.
   • Some thick cherry syrup still remained at the bottom of his glass, and he shook the ice around for a minute until there was enough liquid for a last strawful, then he pushed the button in the palm of his hand that rendered him invisible and slipped unseen from the counter. 1972, M. E. White, Con, Harper & Row, page 15:
   • And yet, you would sip a tiny strawful of God’s Nectar once a day for a few minutes when actually you could drink your fill of Life and Love, and always keep your spiritual thirst quenched so gratifyingly. 1959, The Scribe, The Advancing Ego: A Perpetual Text, Boston, Mass.: Meador Publishing Company, page 39:
   • Placing a finger over the open end of the straw after it has been immersed in the liquid allows withdrawal of a strawful. 1966, Paul Franz Brandwein, Concepts in Science, Harcourt, Brace & World, page 49:
   • While the stars sip their strawsful of sugarless broth fumes and vapor of fetal watercress leaf helicoptered to their trailers daily, everyone else gets fat. 2006, Jonathan Reynolds, Wrestling with Gravy: A Life, with Food, Random House Trade Paperbacks, published 2008, page 231:
   • This means that it would take 17,000 strawfuls of water to fill up a 130-liter (34-gallon) bathtub, and 130,000,000 to fill a typical two-story house. 1995, Stephen Strauss, The Sizesaurus, Kodansha International, page 9:

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