Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the quantity contained in a bowl.
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- noun As much as is held by a
bowl .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quantity contained in a bowl
Etymologies
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Examples
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Here's my favorite salad, which I call a bowlful of protein, as it's made of lentils, spinach and peppers, no fancy dressing, no additional pizzazz, just plain old simple Indian salad!
Simple Chickpea and Mung Salad - A bowl full of Protein 2007
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Here's my favorite salad, which I call a bowlful of protein, as it's made of lentils, spinach and peppers, no fancy dressing, no additional pizzazz, just plain old simple Indian salad!
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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“How ’bout we sneak a bowlful while the boys are occupied.”
Saving Grace Denise Hunter 2005
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Mommy with bubbling soda, Daddy with steaming bowlful of hardening spackle, would plump up my Sears Percale pillows behind my swollen little neck.
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I squeeze sriracha into my bowlful until the top of the soup is more red than orange.
The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011
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A savory, warming bowlful proves the sumptuous ends justify the malodorous means.
No Need to Gripe About Tripe Charlotte Druckman 2011
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One mom of multiples keeps a bowlful of pacifiers, like mints, on the living room table, so one is never too far from reach.
A Conversation with Stacy M. DeBroff, author of The Mom Book 2010
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I squeeze sriracha into my bowlful until the top of the soup is more red than orange.
The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011
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It took a minute before any of them saw the princess, a girl who looked to be about nine years old, standing beneath the monster with a bowlful of SweeTarts.
So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011
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The beard on his double chin is as white as snow, and when he laughs, his little round belly shakes like a bowlful of jelly - and that, as Ernest Berger sees it, is the problem.
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