[
US
/ˈmaʊθˌfʊɫ/
]
[ UK /mˈaʊθfəl/ ]
[ UK /mˈaʊθfəl/ ]
NOUN
- the quantity that can be held in the mouth
-
a small amount eaten or drunk
take a taste--you'll like it
How To Use mouthful In A Sentence
- Then you start to tuck into your breakfast but have to give in after two or three mouthfuls because the pain of chewing and then swallowing the food becomes unbearable.
- Don't be fooled by English English," advised Columbia: "the accent is like a mouthful of pudding, and when they mean to say the weather is bad they say it is 'nawsty;' they call their rubbers 'galoshes,' their dépôts 'stations,' and when they start on a journey they get their Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
- Lengthy mouthfuls of Latin can be off-putting and difficult to remember for many.
- It is next to impossible for a fruit bat to avoid the grit, which adheres to the sticky fruit it eats as well as to the animal itself; even as a bat grooms itself, it gets a mouthful of the ash.
- There is yet another fiber network, called a mouthful SEA-ME-WE-4, is being constructed to serve the booming Asian demand for bandwidth. Yet another fiber network
- Korina swallowed a mouthful of food and looked over at Cat as she sat down on the couch next to Matthew.
- It's not going to be funny when someone who can't have nut products gets a mouthful of the wrong food and goes into shock.
- Some of our friends must be burning for a mouthful, poor dears; the wounded flesh is drouthy. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
- He laughed, swallowing a mucky mouthful. The Times Literary Supplement
- She dumped the toys proudly on the kitchen table before taking her seat and another slurpy mouthful of cereal. Law of Attraction