# bowl-full
## English
### Noun

bowl-full (plural bowl-fulls or bowls-full)
* Uncommon form of bowlful.
** 1671, Poor Robin [pseudonym], Poor Robin 1671. An Almanack after a New Fashion. Wherein the Reader May See (if He Be Not Blind) Many Remarkable Things Worthy of Observation. […], London: […] [T]he Company of Stationers, signature B, recto:Set up the May pole, and ea[t] Cream by whole bowl-fulls.
** 1854, Aubrey De Vere, “The Little Sisters of the Poor”, in Heroines of Charity: […], London: Burns and Lambert, […], →OCLC, page 241:Nor must the soldiers be forgotten, who spared many bowls-full of their soup and many fragments of bread to send to the poor old people.
** 1862, W[illia]m Mathews, Jun., “[The Alps of the Tarentaise.] Narrative of Explorations in 1861.”, in Edward Shirley Kennedy, editor, Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers; Being Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club, second series, volume II, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, page 392:After an excellent supper, which included several bowls-full of this delicious article of diet, we retired to rest on a great heap of hay in a corner of the châlet.
** 1863 December, C[onrad] Wesselhœft, “Clinical Observations on Lachesis”, in P[hineas] P[arkhurst] Wells, Carroll Dunham, Henry M. Smith, editors, The American Homœopathic Review, volume IV, number 6, New York, N.Y.: John T. S. Smith & Son […]; London: Turner & Co., published 1864, page 277:Attributing this deficiency of milk to the habit of her former allopathic physician and nurses of deluging her for weeks with odious concoctions, very properly known as slops, of which she was urged to imbibe huge bowl-fulls, including quantities of tea, for the purpose of “making milk.”
** 1882 November, Mrs. M. Sheffey Peters, “The Barren Ridge of Ridgeway”, in Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine, volume CV, number 629, Philadelphia, Pa., chapter X, page 436, column 1:“Ah!” she returned, smiling, “you are still suspicious of the existence of Aladdin’s cavern in that vicinity, are you?” / He smiled. “A few of the bowl-fulls of those jewels Aladdin found to present to his princess would not be an unwelcome ‘find’ to me, certainly,” he answered, significantly.
** 1898, Edward Reeves, “Samoa”, in Brown Men and Women or The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896, London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim., page 166:Staggering under the huge bowl-fulls of unintoxicating cocoa milk and kava that we have quaffed, we think it prudent to call at the hotel for a life-preserver.
** [1929], G[ustav] Stratil-Sauer, translated by Frederic Whyte, “Some Bad Days—and at last, Release!”, in From Leipzig to Cabul: An Account of my Motor-cycle Ride to Afghanistan and my Nine Months’ Imprisonment in that Country, London: Hutchinson & Co. […], →OCLC, page 268:As would seem to be the custom when Afghan cats pay you a first visit, he devoured two bowl-fulls of rice and milk and then jumped in a matter-of-course kind of way on to my bed, where he settled down cosily to sleep, as though he had been accustomed to it for weeks.
** [1930], Virgil, translated by T[homas] H[ughes] Delabère May, “Book V”, in The Aeneid of Virgil: Literally rendered into English Blank Verse with the Text opposite (Broadway Translations), London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd.; New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., →OCLC, page 194:Here, offering due libation, on the ground / He pours two bowl-fulls of unmixen wine, / Two of new milk, and two of sacred blood, / And strews bright flowers, and such the words he speaks: […][original: Hic duo rite mero libans carchesia Baccho / Fundit humi, duo lacte novo, duo sanguine sacro, / Purpureosque iacit flores ac talia fatur: […]]
** 1950, Diana Shipton, “Entertainments and Visitors”, in The Antique Land, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 90:When the guests had swallowed one or two bowl-fulls of tea, which we helped to pour out, they filed away again.
** 1955, Émile Zola, translated by Ann Lindsay, Earth, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →LCCN, second part, section VII, page 157:From this moment they began drinking coffee, not one or two cups, but bowl-fulls, all the time.
** 1960, Ira Morris, chapter 13, in The Paper Wall, London: Chatto and Windus, page 155:Everything in Japan was meagre: the houses, the bowl-fulls of rice, the animals and the people themselves, product of generations of subsistence living.
** 1974 January 25, Michael FitzGerald, “barely conscious”, in The Charlatan, volume 3, number 19, Ottawa, Ont.: [T]he Carleton University Students’ Association Inc., →OCLC, page 9, column 2:Between bowl-fulls I was able to examine select specimens in their natural habitat. Immediately noting hairy armpits, low foreheads, jutting jaws and low guttural noises, I concluded that unique cybernetic brain-wave patterns existed, in what quantities still to be determined by carbon-14 radioactive methods.
** 1980, Victoria Wolff, chapter IV, in Spell of Egypt, Los Angeles, Calif.: Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 25:He drank a few whiskeys and smoked a few bowl-fulls of his pipe and told me a few stories.
** 1983 September, Le Van Phong, “Building an Agro-Industrial Economic Structure Within Dien Ban District”, in Southeast Asia Report, number 1384 (Vietnam, Tap Chi Cong San; number 9), published 1983 December 15, page 58:The raising of three rice crops per year on the same land was something new, something that required maintaining the fertility of cropland while meeting seasonal schedules, avoiding trying to put "two bowl-fulls in one bowl" and still producing the highest output of paddy possible per unit of area.
** 1995, Steven Clavey, quoting Xu Shu-Wei, “Case history from Xu Shu-Wei: pocketed thin mucus syndrome”, in Fluid Physiology and Pathology in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Melbourne, Vic.: Churchill Livingstone, →ISBN, page 161:After half a cup of wine, I would have to stop, and every ten days or so would vomit several bowls-full of sour watery fluid.
** 1997, Gayle Black, “The Gemini Personality”, in The Sun Sign Diet: A Thinner You Is In The Stars, Chicago, Ill.: Alive & Well Publications, →ISBN, page 88:At times like these, you, who are so gifted with words, would rather resort to eating bowl-fulls of tortilla chips and M & Ms, while waiting impatiently for your lover to read your mind.
** 2004, Jean Steiner et al., editors, Taste of Home’s Budget Suppers, Greendale, Wis.: Reiman Media Group, Inc., →ISBN, page 62, column 1:Hearty Bean Soup is convenient to simmer all day in a slow cooker, says Alice Schnoor of Arion, Iowa. “Bowl-fulls really warm you up on a cold winter day,” attests Alice.
** 2005, Sadakat Kadri, Mary-Ann Gallagher, Rana Haddad, James Alexander, Prague, London: Cadogan Guides; Guilford, Conn.: The Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 238, column 3:A popular little Italian restaurant serving up tasty pizzas, generous steaks and great bowl-fulls of pasta.
** 2005, Nanzie McLeod, “Destiny”, in Tales of the East Neuk, Glasgow: The Hyndland Press, →ISBN, page 197:At one-thirty Celia served thick lentil soup and after devouring three bowl-fulls, Peter felt less depressed.

### References

* Allen H[ayden] Weld (1859) “The Noun”, in George Payn Quackenbos, editor, Weld’s Progressive English Grammar, Illustrated with Copious Exercises in Analysis, Parsing, and Composition, Adapted to Schools and Academies of Every Grade, Portland, Me.: […] O. L. Sanborn & Company; Boston, Mass.: Chase & Nichols; Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co, part II (Words), page 44: “Nouns ending in ful and full, and compounds in which the principal word stands last, annex s or es, to form their plural; as, spoonful, spoonfuls; bowl-full, bowl-fulls; man-trap, man-traps; step-son, step-sons.”