waterglassful

English

Etymology

From water glass +‎ -ful.

Noun

waterglassful (plural waterglassfuls)

1. As much as a water glass will hold.
   • 1876 February 14, “The Household. Recipes and Recommendations, Practical and Ornamental.”, in The Evening Star‎^[1], volume 47, number 7,140, Washington, D.C.:

     […] add gently a table-spoonful of flour (stirring all the while), and a water-glassful of good stock, with salt and pepper;

   • 1905 March 4, “Found Poison in Water. Chemist Finds Strychnine in the Bottle of Poland Water.”, in Oakland Tribune, volume LXIII, number 11, Oakland, Calif., section “The Dose”, page 5:

     A waterglassful, five fluid ounces, would hold in solution about 0.8 grains of strychnia.

   • 1907, I[smar Isidor] Boas, translated by Albert Bernheim, Diseases of the Stomach, Philadelphia, Pa.: F. A. Davis Company, page 535:

     Fasting stomach: two waterglassfuls of contents.

   • 1945, Raymond Chandler, Five Sinister Characters, Avon Book Company, page 57:

     He poured himself half a waterglassful of the whiskey out of the pint bottle which he had gone out to buy.

   • 1953, Esquire’s Handbook for Hosts, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, page 29:

     When the seeds begin to crackle—in about a minute—pour four waterglassfuls of cold water over them.

   • 1972, Charles Bukowski, edited by Gail Chiarrello, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness, City Lights Books, published July 1974, →ISBN, page 68:

     that settled her for a bit and we sat for a bit and we sat drinking down the waterglassfuls of wine, port.

   • 1978, Ararat, page 40:

     At lunch-time and in the evening men drop in to drink a waterglassful of vodka, usually in one drought, followed by a chaser of Pepsi-Cola or pickled vegetables.

   • 2013, E.M. Schorb, A Portable Chaos, revised edition, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 175:

     He poured them each a great big waterglassful of the rot-gut he usually drank, and, beaming madly, toasted, “Prost!”