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Meanings of mugful in English

Spanish
taza

The quantity that can be held in a mug.

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Usage of mugful in English
1
He got up and went to the table and poured a mugful.
For Love Of Evil
2
She washes her hands with water from the second mugful.
How the soldier repairs the gramophone
3
When the coffee was ready, I poured myself a mugful.
After midnight
4
He crossed to the coffee maker, poured himself a mugful and gulped it down.
Career of Evil
5
Every one, from the skipper to the ship's boy, had a mugful; some had two.
Chatterbox, 1905.
6
S'pose we have an extra can of milk left and give 'em a good mugful?
Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 5 / Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, ...
7
Liam levered to his feet, grabbed the mugful of tea and dumped it in the sink.
The mighty quinns: liam
8
The child rose, stirred the pot with the knife and scooped out a mugful of stew.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
9
Kete fetched him a fresh mugful.
The Wise Man’s Fear
10
The sensitive, who was just back from treating the wounded, cupped her mugful of tea with both hands.
Logos Run
11
Everyone is allowed one mugful.
The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories
12
Andrew Eliot had a mugful.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
13
The latter, gasping for breath now, poured himself out a mugful of water and drank it down at one draught.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
14
By now he'd be down a mugful of his life's blood, and his head would be reeling from the loss.
Sons of the Oak
15
At this point José ran in, and after he had drunk a large mugful he told them what he had learned.
The Treasure of the Incas: A Story of Adventure in Peru
16
He is to lie-up. Jimmy drank a tin mugful of coffee, and, after bullying first one and then another, went to bed.
The Nigger Of The "Narcissus": A Tale Of The Forecastle
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Translations for mugful
Spanish
taza
Mugful through the time