Soup-bowl

Quick meaning: Soup-bowl is a noun meaning Dated form of soup bowl.

Meaning

Dated form of soup bowl.

Example Sentences

Donlavey praised his engine builder, Bud Moore, and added that the Ford engine has “less low end tourque,^([sic]) so it’s better for this track,” which is a big soup-bowl of a speedway.

Their lands are pledged to nearly the full value, and are rack-rented; and their position could not be maintained as it is but for the occasional sops which they contrive to fish out of the soup-bowls, supplied by the government for the relief of the famished.

He was about to turn away then, when upon the topmost shelf he caught a glimpse of the very thing Janie had been most anxious to hide from him, a silver tureen, very elegant and very massive. It had been a wedding present to Mrs. Gerald’s grandmother. “I’ll just take that there soup-bowl,” he remarked. “Mount up on a cheer, little gal, an’ hand it down to me.”

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