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forkful

[ fawrk-fool ]

noun

, plural fork·fuls.
  1. the amount a fork can hold.


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Spelling Note

See -ful.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of forkful1

1635–45; fork + -ful, probably on the model of spoonful

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Example Sentences

“Feel my noodle,” he says as he lowers a forkful onto her face.

Dad tried a forkful of her food and went reeling into the kitchen to drink a gallon of milk.

The old-fashioned, slow, hard work of lifting the hay by the forkful into the barn was no longer necessary.

After tasting his first forkful of food, he gasped, "And none of this ham!"

Grimacing as he did so, Harky pitched another forkful of hay down the chute.

They fed the hens and gave George Washington a liberal measure of oats and a big forkful of hay.

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