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Definition of Thimbleful
1. Noun. As much as a thimble will hold.
Definition of Thimbleful
1. n. As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity.
Definition of Thimbleful
1. Noun. As much as a thimble will hold. ¹
2. Noun. (context: by extension) A small amount of liquid, especially alcoholic spirits. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thimbleful
1. [n THIMBLEFULS or THIMBLESFUL]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thimbleful
Literary usage of Thimbleful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences of My Irish Journey in 1849 by Thomas Carlyle (1882)
"Home through the damp streets (not bad streets at all, and a population still
partly clothed making its Saturday markets); thimbleful of punch over peat ..."
2. The Common Sense of Political Economy, Including a Study of the Human Basis by Philip Henry Wicksteed (1910)
"The first thimbleful of milk given ami marginal, to the baby is immensely more
significant than the first thimbleful given to the children or reserved for ..."
3. The Career of Dion Boucicault by Townsend Walsh (1915)
"I did—barrin' one thimbleful a day just to take the cruelty out of the wather.
FATHER D. One thimbleful. I allowed you that concession. No more. CONN. ..."
4. The Career of Dion Boucicault by Townsend Walsh (1915)
"FATHER D. One thimbleful. I allowed you that concession. No more. CONN. God bless
ye, ye did. ... FATHER D. And you took only one thimbleful? CONN. ..."
5. Potter's American Monthly (1877)
"Thrown away, Reverendissimo Domino, know this, that a little more or a little
less would fail, as I said; so look here, this thimbleful is worth more than a ..."
6. The Field Book: Or, Sports and Pastimes of the United Kingdom; Comp. from (1833)
"You may then put in half a thimbleful of the best madder, »nd the same of turmeric ;
let them boil smartly for five minutes, ..."
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