saucer
noun
a small, round, shallow dish to hold a cup.
saucerful
-
a word derived from
saucer.
Example Sentences
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Working with just ones, noughts, and a saucerful of secrets, these ground-breaking artists stand front and centre of any modern corporate or commerical strategy.
From Forbes ● Jun. 30, 2015
It later aroused considerable speculation as to how, without being sadly watered down, a good saucerful of TV fun could fill a regulation soup bowl of a play.
From Time Magazine Archive
The milk carton was almost empty, but if she diluted what was left with a little warm water there was just enough for a saucerful.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
A chemist cannot tell the prepared cotton oil from olive oil except by exposing a saucerful of each, and the olive oil becomes rancid much quicker than the cotton oil.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 by Various
“Now, Amanda Pratt,” said she, “I'd like to know how in creation you've left a saucerful of milk for that cat for every day till you get back.”
From Jane Field A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
