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tureenful en · NOUN

Etymology

From tureen + -ful.

Meanings

1. As much as a tureen will hold.
   • “I was properly impressed. Most properly. I yawned openly. ‘Strict supervision, and play them off one against the other,’ said The Mussuck, shoveling down his ice by tureenfuls, I assure you. ‘That, Mrs. Hauksbee, is the secret of our Government.’” 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 11:

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