Definition of "cupfuls" [cupfuls]

• Plural form of cupful. (noun)

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• "Fanny, you go to the well and fill the bucket, and bring it in with water to the brim, not just a few cupfuls, which is your lazy way."
• "Indeed, the first attestation of film shows up in a medical document from around the year 1000 AD, when, it appears, inhabitants of England might have been enjoying one or two too many cupfuls of mead:"
• "They guarded their separate sacks, stored up in the cache, with jealous eyes; for there were but a few cupfuls left, and they were totally devoid of faith in each other."