jug
She drank jugful after jugful of water.
Serve double cream by the jugful.
If you buy one alcoholic drink you get a free jugful of drink for the children.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Measurements of volume: informal
-ful
armload
basketful
boatload
bucketful
cup
dessertspoon
fistful
forkful
glass
plate
pocketful
pot
scoop
spoonful
tablespoonful
tankful
tbs
tbsp.
truckload
Examples of jugful
jugful
I asked a nurse to keep on adding a few more extra jugfuls of warm water to the bath, and immersed the baby head first.
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Hansard archive
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However, a litre is only a
jugful of petrol.
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Hansard archive
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