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thermosful en · NOUN

Etymology

From thermos + -ful.

Meanings

1. The amount necessary to fill a thermos flask.
   • Finally he settles on a location in the basement of the Hunter College library, among books in French that don't tempt him away from the task at hand. He drinks many thermosfuls of coffee. 2008 August 2, Nicholson Baker, “Ammon Shea's 'Reading the OED'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2015:
   • When, her face green, Louise wailed to him: 'This takes all the gilt off the gingerbread!' he not only consoled her with words, but, a practical man, provided thermosfuls of soup for her to take to work, homemade vegetable soup which soothed her ominously lurching stomach. 1994, Hazel Hucker, A Dangerous Happiness, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, published 1996, →ISBN, page 172:
   • The advance of the sakura is tracked, as Will Ferguson puts it, 'with a seriousness usually reserved for armies on the march', and its arrival in a region is celebrated with extempore haiku, and thermosfuls of saké. 2000 August 27, Robert MacFarlane, “The trail of cherry blossom, cowsex and saké”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2022:
   • I let him steer me up to Dolores Park, stopping at the Turk's to get a cup to go and a thermosful for after that. We perched on a bench and Liam waited patiently while I drank my first cup and poured myself a second one. 2013, Cory Doctorow, Homeland, New York, N.Y.: Tor Teen, →ISBN, page 329:

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