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cupful
noun
The amount necessary to make a cup full
synonyms
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In particular, they buy in smaller quantities a cupful of rice, not a 10-kilogram bag; a single cigarette, not a packet.
In the YouTube clip of his audition which has been watched over 115m times Mr Potts is overweight and ungainly, and his wincing expression couldn't be more pained if he'd just swallowed a cupful of battery acid.
Click on a button on the badge as you approach the beverage dispenser and, hey presto, the machine prepares you a cupful of your favourite brew.
Sheer rigueur had put him at the top of France's pastry tree, beside Carême and within a whisk-beat of the great Escoffier.The elements of his craft seemed simple enough, when laid out on the page Three eggs 1 cupful caster sugar One ½ stick unsalted butterBut in Mr Lenôtre's world the eggs were laid that morning, fresh out of the straw and kept for half an hour at room temperature.
Rubber trees are tapped about once every two days, yielding a cupful of latex, containing approximately 50 grams (1.7 ounces) of solid rubber, each time.
Remove about half a cupful of the shells (not the chicken bones) and blend with the sauce in a liquidiser.
Tip about one-tenth of the shells into a blender and add about a cupful of the strained sauce.
He immediately offered me an espresso, which he made at a little machine that spit out one cupful at a time.
I arranged the chicken pieces on top, decorated them with blanched tarragon leaves, and varnished them with a reserved cupful of aspic that I had stirred over a bowl of ice until it turned syrupy.
Pour a cupful of white wine into rice that's been turned for a minute or two in hot olive oil and some minced onion.
The cupful of soup wobbled on the tray, slid toward the edge, and toppled over Mrs. Ingoldsby's vast bare back......
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