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English

Etymology

From dipper +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

Noun

dipperful (plural dipperfuls or dippersful)

  1. (US) As much as a dipper will hold; a cupful.
    • 1899 October, Mark Twain , chapter III, in Christian Science , New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, published February 1907, →OCLC, book I, page 28:
      He made up a bucket of bran-mash, and said a dipperful of it every two hours, alternated with a drench with turpentine and axle-grease in it, would either knock my ailments out of men in twenty-four hours, or so interest me in other ways as to make me forget they were on the premises. I took up the Christian Science book and read half of it, then took a dipperful of drench and read the other half.
    • 2007 February 3, “A rare bill in Congress”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      Earmarks—those undebated dipperfuls of taxpayer-financed contracts that tripled under the Republicans—will undoubtedly return in the new budget.
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