[1715–25; scoop + -ful]This word is first recorded in the period 1715–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blackleg, dugout, federation, leverage, screening-ful is a suffix meaning “full of,” “characterized by” (shameful; beautiful; careful; thoughtful); “tending to,” “able to” (wakeful; harmful); or “as much as will fill” (spoonful)
Examples of 'scoopful' in a sentence
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Piles of grasshoppers, their small innards removed and their shells dried and dusted with chillies, are sold by the scoopful.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He pours a steaming scoopful into a steel mould, which he then leaves to cool for a couple of hours.