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bowlful

American  
[bohl-fool] / ˈboʊl fʊl /

noun

  • bowlfuls
    plural
  1. as much as a bowl can hold.

    He ate two bowlfuls of soup.


Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of bowlful

First recorded in 1605–15; bowl 1 + -ful


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Serve them by the bowlful with cold drinks, or scatter them over tomato soup, chili, Caesar salad or roasted vegetables.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

"When I was a kid I used to eat champ by the bowlful, so trying to tie in a little bit of my upbringing there," he said.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

The space was redolent of chanterelles, a bowlful of which she’d just received from a forager friend in exchange for a burger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024

As for the lasagna soup, it’s pretty much the strapping bowlful you imagine it to be and underscores the owners’ mind-set.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023

Spoon by spoon, bowlful by bowlful, over the next months, Serafina hovering close, I sip a soup of pumpkin flowers.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

To serve, cook 200g mixed berries with 20g sugar and pour over bowlfuls of the ice-cream, garnishing with fresh lemon thyme and a drizzle of olive oil.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2019

Berger suggests the twins gather photos of Beverly – and they go ahead and make a sort of homemade shrine and eat bowlfuls of raspberries alongside it.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2016

Like a wolf, I gorged—ate nineteen paper bowlfuls of chili.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Water in abundance was given us without payment, and they sold us fish dried in the sun, and some bowlfuls of sour milk, all at a reasonable price.

From Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. by Patrick Maxwell

About ten more bowlfuls are needed, but these are poured by Mrs. Agelan without further ceremony.

From Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific by Felix Speiser

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