Synonyms:
mouthful
Meaning: the quantity that can be held in the mouth
Usage examples
"I don't believe I'll be able to eat a mouthful," said Diana dolefully.
The spines begin to hurt her, and her mouthful on the whole to incommode her.
The grand duke took a large mouthful and threw up his eyes as he swallowed it.
But Shadow hunts me even when his stomach is so full he cannot eat another mouthful.
'I am sure of my supper, but let us have a mouthful of something first, just to give us an appetite.'
The mink stuffed himself till he could not get another mouthful down. There were still a couple of trout untouched.
Not expecting anything of this sort the boy was not holding his breath. The result was that he got a mouthful of water.
The food was poisoned, and while Mohammed discovered it at once and ate but a single mouthful, the poison remained in his body.
The next day, too, Katharine's food was all found fault with, and caught away before she could touch a mouthful, and she was sick and giddy for want of sleep.
But nature has given him a mouthful of common sense, and the priest has added a bushelful of learning; he is what we call a very clever man in this country, where clever men are scarce.