Definition of "teaspoonful" []

• The amount that a teaspoon can hold. (noun)

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• "Trying to swallow them by the teaspoonful is another -- and, let me say from the get-go, not an advisable -- thing altogether."
• "_ -- Soak a teaspoonful of gelatine in a dessert spoonful of water."
• "Soak a teaspoonful of gelatine one or two hours in three table - spoonfuls of water."