DISHFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dishful mean? 

• DISHFUL (noun)
  The noun DISHFUL has 1 sense:

1. the quantity that a dish will hold

  Familiarity information: DISHFUL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISHFUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity that a dish will hold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

dish; dishful

Context example:

they served me a dish of rice

Hypernyms ("dishful" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

 Context examples 

And when she kept on begging, she said at last, to get rid of her, I will throw this dishful of peas into the ash-heap, and if in two hours’ time you have picked them all out, you shall go to the feast too.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)