dipperful

noun

1. (US)As much as a dipper will hold; a cupful.

   “He [the horse-doctor] made up a bucket of bran-mash, and said a dipperful of it every two hours, alternated with a drench with turpentine and axle-grease in it, would either knock my ailments out of men in twenty-four hours, or so interest me in other ways as to make me forget they were on the premises. […] I took up the Christian Science book and read half of it, then took a dipperful of drench and read the other half.”

   “Earmarks—those undebated dipperfuls of taxpayer-financed contracts that tripled under the Republicans—will undoubtedly return in the new budget.”