We have no meanings for "whole plateful" in our records yet.
1 He could already eat a whole plateful of salt fish and cabbage.
2 Last night I just threw the whole plateful out of my cabin window.
3 And there comes Betty with a whole plateful of bones in her hand!
4 And this explains why a small slice of meat nourishes you more than a whole plateful of salad.
5 Between muffins (he ate the whole plateful ) he saw fit to interrogate me as to my preparedness for this position.
6 "You've got a whole plateful of maybe a little less wrong."
7 "Nobody but Sammy Wiggins; he ate his whole plateful , saleratus and all, before anybody spoke."
8 "Yes, I ate it, plenty of it, a whole plateful ! " Bertie cried explosively, like a diver suddenly regaining breath.
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