coffeepotfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

coffee-potful (複数形 coffee-potsful)

1. Alternative form of coffeepotful
   • 1897 April 27, “That Awful, Awful Odor. The Dumping Ground is Terrible in Its Offensiveness. But the Long Suffering Citizens May Yet be Afforded Relief.”, in The Record-Union, volume XCIII, number 65 (whole 17,362), Sacramento, Calif., page 3:

     C. C. Brown addressed the board, saying that the sprinkling wagon goes once a day, in the morning, in the vicinity of Sixth and G streets, and puts about a coffee-potful of water on the street.

   • 1911 August, Burton E[gbert] Stevenson, “Among Dutch Inns”, in The Spell of Holland: The Story of a Pilgrimage to the Land of Dykes and Windmills, Boston, Mass.: L. C. Page & Company, page 347:

     So I told the proprietor that two people couldn’t make a toilet with one small coffee-potful of hot water.

   • 1916 August 13, “The Housekeeper”, in The People. A Weekly Newspaper for All Classes., number 1,818, London, page 10:

     Coffee Syrup. Take ½lb. best coffee (ground), put into a saucepan with 3 pints of water, boil down to 1 pint, cool the liquor, put into another pan and boil again. As it boils add enough white sugar to make it into a syrup. Take it from the fire, and when cold put into bottles and seal. When travelling it is very convenient, as 2 teaspoonfuls make a coffee-potful.

   • 1923 March 3, “A Ban On Water”, in The Staunton News-Leader, 31st year, number 53, Staunton, Va., page four:

     Perhaps the wine-drinking habit of the French, together with poor quality of water, due to the unsanitary condition of wells and springs in many parts of France, or to other causes, may have something to do with the French minister’s counterblast against the beverage that God made. Habit is a curious thing. Tastes differ. We once knew a retired physician who told the writer that he had not touched a drop of water for thirty-six years! He drank nothing but coffee-potsful of it, hot n^[sic] winter and iced in summer, and, strange to say, he seemed to thrive on it.