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English
Etymology
From tureen + -ful.
Noun
tureenful (plural tureenfuls or tureensful)
- As much as a tureen will hold.
1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 11:“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.’”
Translations
as much as a tureen will hold