Gulpful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gulpful is a noun meaning The amount swallowed in a single gulp.
Meaning
The amount swallowed in a single gulp.
Example Sentences
Funky held out an unlabeled bottle of whisky to Clifford, who drank a gulpful.
The taste drove him mad, and, dropping down on hands and knees like a dog, he put his lips to the side of the bucket and drew in long gulpfuls.
He had drunk on beery-extra layers of fat to his already substantial torso until his midsection hung in front with an almost improbably swollen belly which lugged at his heart and squeezed his lungs so that his breathing was a rhythmic gasping for gulpsful of air with the effort to trundle his bulk about on foreshortened legs.
Word Forms
- gulpfuls
- gulpsful
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gulp, mouthful, glassful, chug, dropful, draft.
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