biteful
The amount eaten in a single bite.
Noun
- The amount eaten in a single bite.
- How many times have you eaten the last two bitesful when you actually did not want them? - 1961 March 1, “Clean-Plate Club poor nutritionally”, in Mason City Globe-Gazette, volume 99, Mason City, Iowa, page 17:
- This corn is as sweet as sweet corn gets . . . big plump ears, with juice-packed kernels . . . row after row of blissful bitesful. - 1964 May 13, “Stop-n-Shop Produce … Best Because It’s “Triple-Checked”: 24 Karat...
- […] the ritual aspect is attractive and the individual may, dipping first in one, then in the other, season to taste, biteful by biteful. - 1974, Richard Olney, Simple French Food, 40th anniversary edition, New York,...
Origin
From bite + -ful.