[See -FUL 2.] As much as the tongue will hold or carry.
1877. St. Joseph (MI) Sat. Herald, 17 Nov., 4/3. The cat … tried a tongueful of it, and bounded out of the room with a tail like a hearth-brush.
1892. M. Dods, Israel’s Iron Age, 43. A dog … snatching mouthfuls or tonguefuls of water.
