coffeepotful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffeepotfuls
form: coffee potful
form: coffee-potful
Etymology: From coffeepot + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Wash a coffeepotful of rice in two or three waters, then let it soak all night in three pints of new milk.
ref: 1883 June 21, “Housekeepers’ Helps”, in The Hicksville News, volume IX, number 43, Hicksville, Ohio:
text: Then add the curry powder, a little salt, a small piece of cocoanut grated, and a coffeepotful of rich milk or cream.
ref: 1885 July 24, “Home Topics”, in Boston Evening Transcript, volume LVIII, number 17,867, Boston, Mass., page 3:
text: I kept the bullet around to show to folks a long time, but somebody carried it off. Somebody always does carry off my relics. I had a coffee[-]potful.
ref: 1889 November 17, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, “An Old Man’s Tales”, in The Chicago Tribune, volume XLIX, page 27:
text: Then add the curry powder, a little salt, a small piece of coconut grated, and a coffeepotful of rich milk or cream.
ref: 1894, “The Kitchen”, in Spons’ Household Manual: A Treasury of Domestic Receipts and Guide for Home Management, London: E. & F. N. Spon; New York, N.Y.: Spon & Chamberlain, section “Sauces, Butters, Gravies, Stuffings, &c.”, subsection “Curries and Curry Powders”, subsubsection (o), page 465:
text: The farmers are all happy, but then, well—it only takes a coffee-pot-ful of water to make the average Kansas farmer think he is rich.
ref: 1895 July 12, Uno, “South Brown”, in The Kinsley Graphic, volume 18, number 33, Kinsley, Kan.:
text: Whip a pint of thick cream, add it to a quarter of a pint or half a big coffeepotful of cool but liquid aspic jelly, and a desert^([sic]) spoonful of sherry.
ref: 1904 September 21, “Rich English Cookery. Elaborate Recipes Concocted by English Chefs for Course Dinners.”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 25, Kansas City, Mo., page 11:
text: Whenever coffee is served after a meal, it is thoughtful to offer a decaffeinated brew as well. If a number of guests have requested it, you might make a coffeepotful. But if it is just one or two persons, you can perfectly well serve them a decaffeinated coffee powder, and a pot of boiling water.
ref: 1965, Geneviève Antoine Dariaux, “Coffee”, in Entertaining with Elegance, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 79:
text: “Why,” he protested, “it’s just a castor bean!” “It came up about a year ago,” I said. “Planted itself right where I wanted a green something. I kept it from freezing last winter. I put boxes around it to break the wind, and on cold nights I covered it with gunnysacks. Every morning I pour a coffeepotful of water on it.”
ref: 1967, Eulalia Bourne, “Caring for the Green”, in Woman in Levi’s, The University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 102:
text: Let us examine the lattice energy of common table salt (NaCl). One mole of NaCl weighs 58.5 grams, which is perhaps three tablespoonfuls. The lattice energy of NaCl is the amount of heat needed to put into this small amount of salt, first to melt it, then to bring it to its boiling point and vaporize it and finally to distribute the gaseous Na⁺ and Cl⁻ evenly throughout the entire known universe and for an infinite distance beyond. The quantity of heat required to do this is a mere 180 kilocalories, just about enough to bring a coffeepotful of water to a boil from room temperature.
ref: 1973, Robert W[hippen] Medeiros, “The Chemical Bond”, in Chemistry: A Modern Perspective, D. Van Nostrand Company, →ISBN, section 3 (Ionic Bonding), page 44:
text: It was a restaurant, and for $9, I was lavished by my very own waiter with white linen and wine, steak and vegetables and a miniature drip coffeepotful of the best.
ref: 1973 September 8, James Duff, “From Brussels to Paris by bike ‘more beer than gas en route’”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page 32:
text: And, finally, sitting — as promised — at home plate, with an occasional coffeepotful of beer, until the sun came up the morning after the Tigers clinched the championship.
ref: 1981 August 30, Bob Payne, “As it turned out, Nottle Ball was more fun”, in The Tacoma News Tribune, 99th year, number 47, Tacoma, Wash., page B-1:
text: Anderson declined to say how great a disparity existed, saying only that it was more than a coffeepotful and was substantial.
ref: 1989 August 9, “B-N water sale talks set today”, in The Pantagraph, Bloomington–Normal, Ill., page A4:
text: Around eight I stopped feeding the fire and started carrying coffeepotfuls of water to douse the ashes.
ref: 1999, Joseph Monninger, “The North Platte”, in Home Waters: Fishing with an Old Friend, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 176:
text: He turned his body back and forth in front of the blaze till he began to feel like his bones had thawed out, then poured a coffeepotful of water on the fire.
ref: 1999, Doug Bowman, chapter 27, in The Quest of Jubal Kane, New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 284:
glosses: As much as a coffee pot will hold.