thermosful

English

Etymology

From thermos +‎ -ful.

Noun

thermosful (plural thermosfuls)

1. The amount necessary to fill a thermos flask.
   • 1994, Hazel Hucker, A Dangerous Happiness, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, published 1996, →ISBN, page 172:

     When, her face green, Louise wailed to him: 'This takes all the gilt off the gingerbread!' he not only consoled her with words, but, a practical man, provided thermosfuls of soup for her to take to work, homemade vegetable soup which soothed her ominously lurching stomach.

   • 2000 August 27, Robert MacFarlane, “The trail of cherry blossom, cowsex and saké”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-03-27:

     The advance of the sakura is tracked, as Will Ferguson puts it, 'with a seriousness usually reserved for armies on the march', and its arrival in a region is celebrated with extempore haiku, and thermosfuls of saké.

   • 2008 August 2, Nicholson Baker, “Ammon Shea’s ’Reading the OED’”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-08-11:

     Finally he settles on a location in the basement of the Hunter College library, among books in French that don't tempt him away from the task at hand. He drinks many thermosfuls of coffee.

   • 2013, Cory Doctorow, Homeland, New York, N.Y.: Tor Teen, →ISBN, page 329:

     I let him steer me up to Dolores Park, stopping at the Turk's to get a cup to go and a thermosful for after that. We perched on a bench and Liam waited patiently while I drank my first cup and poured myself a second one.