small indefinite amount vs mouthful

mouthful vs small indefinite amount

small indefinite amount and mouthful both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
small indefinite amount	Yes	No	No	No
mouthful	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mouthful is a hyponym of small indefinite amount; that is, mouthful is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than small indefinite amount:

small indefinite amount: an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
mouthful: a small amount eaten or drunk

Other hyponyms of small indefinite amount include helping, portion, serving, taste, crumb, dab, splash, splatter, bit, spot, hair's-breadth, hair, hairsbreadth, whisker, modicum, scattering, sprinkling, shoe string, shoestring, spray, spraying, nose, step, stone's throw, little, schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik, shade, tad, lower limit, minimum, morsel, handful, smattering, couple, drib, driblet, drop, dollop, dreg, diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat, nip, shot, hint, suggestion, tint, trace, iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit, tot, hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch.

small indefinite amount (noun)	mouthful (noun)
an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude	a small amount eaten or drunk
	the quantity that can be held in the mouth

Difference between small indefinite amount and mouthful

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