cupful

cupful

English

Etymology

From Middle English copful, copfull, cupfulle, cuppefulle, equivalent to cup +‎ -ful. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kopful (“cupful”), West Frisian kopfol (“cupful”).

Noun

cupful (plural cupfuls or cupsful)

1. The amount necessary to make a cup full

   Add a cupful of milk to the sauce.

2. A half pint, i.e. eight ounces

Translations

the amount necessary to make a cup full

Armenian: գավաթ (hy) (gavatʿ) Asturian: cacíu m Bulgarian: ча́ша (bg) f (čáša) Finnish: kupillinen (fi) French: tasse (fr) f Hungarian: csészényi Irish: lán cupáin m

Norman: coupaïe f (Guernsey), tâssée f (Jersey) Portuguese: xícara (pt) f Russian: ча́шка (ru) f (čáška) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ча̏ша f Roman: čȁša (sh) f

a half pint — see half-pint

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967