sporkful

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English

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Etymology

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From spork +‎ -ful.

Noun

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sporkful (plural sporkfuls or sporksful)

  1. The amount that a spork will hold.
    • 2006 August, Mark Budz, chapter 14, in Idolon, Bantam Spectra, page 103:
      The nausea abated some, enough for her to take a few tentative sporkfuls of curry.
    • 2008, Deborah Halverson, Big Mouth, Delacorte Press, page 186:
      I stab, stab, stabbed at my lettuce, trying for another sporkful.
    • 2020, Karen Andrea Campbell, Falling: Hard Lessons and the Redemption of the Woman Next Door, →ISBN:
      I ate what I could and continued to eat sporksful as I walked to the dish drop.

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