mealfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

mealful (plural mealsful)

1. Enough for a meal.
   • 1884 August 9, “The Member’s Nightmare”, in Vanity Fair: A Weekly Show of Political, Social, & Literary Wares, volume XXXII, London, page 95, column 1:

     He’s luring the salmon to rise at the fly, / He’s catching the trout by the creelful; / He’s shooting the pheasant to put in the pie, / And of wild-duck he’s getting a mealful.

   • 1977 February 3, Mimi Sheraton, “Fake Cheeses Rate ‘Yucks’”, in The Tennessean, volume 71, number 301, Nashville, Tenn., page 68, column 1:

     The most startlingly dreadful was imitation mozzarella by Universal Foods Corp. of Madison, Wis. At the first bite, I felt my throat close in a protective reflex I should have respected. Much denser and more solid than the true, gently squeezable Italian original, the flavor of this imposter is metallic, saline, and medicinal; it was a flavor that only a mealful of chili-fired Thai food could eradicate.

   • 2007, Judith Jones, “American Cooking”, in The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 119:

     When we admitted to her that we had never tasted squirrel, after dismissing the possibility of snagging a few in Central Park, where, we decided, they would be overindulged and not taste at all like their country cousins, Edna insisted that her brother in Virginia shoot a mealful of real Freetown squirrels and parcel-post them to us.

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