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单词 plateful
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platefuln.

Brit. /ˈpleɪtfʊl/, U.S. /ˈpleɪtˌfʊl/
Forms: see plate n. and -ful suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plate n., -ful suffix.
Etymology: < plate n. + -ful suffix.
A quantity (of food, etc.) which fills a plate.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > a plate, saucer, or dish
dishfulc1320
saucerfulc1440
dish1600
platterful1611
plateful?c1625
trencherful1660
porringerful1675
tureenful1817
?c1625 in E. Beveridge & J. D. Westwood Fergusson's Sc. Prov. (1924) No. 1624 Ye ar stout throw kynd, your goodschir drew a sword to a plaitful of pottag.
1699 E. Ward London Spy I. xii. 10 A Generous Plateful of the Good Creature was brought as a Present.
1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 67 I..swallowed down a plate-ful of the broth.
1797 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor V. ix. 161 Dish succeeded to dish: and one plateful was but devoured that another and another might be gorged.
1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xvi. 163 Let me have a plateful of that pork!
1898 E. N. Westcott David Harum xxvii. 249 Then the waiter brought me another plateful of somethin'.
1935 L. Zara Blessed is Man i. iii. 103 She made him a heaping plateful of the fried potato pancakes.
1997 GQ Sept. 128/1 You can pig out on a Christmas dinner plateful or three without feeling like Wayne Slob.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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