Meaning of dipperful | Babel Free

Definitions

As much as a dipper will hold; a cupful.

US

Examples

“He [the horse-doctor] made up a bucket of bran-mash, and said a dipperful of it every two hours, alternated with a drench with turpentine and axle-grease in it, would either knock⟳ my ailments out of men in twenty-four hours, or so interest⟳ me in other ways as to make⟳ me forget⟳ they were on the premises. […] I took up the Christian Science book and read⟳ half of it, then took a dipperful of drench and read⟳ the other half.”

“Earmarks—those undebated dipperfuls of taxpayer-financed contracts that tripled under the Republicans—will undoubtedly return⟳ in the new budget.”

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