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bucketful

noun

Etymology

From bucket + -ful. Compare Old English būcful, būcfull (“bucketful”).

  1. derived from *būkaz✻
  2. derived from *būk✻ — “belly, stomach”
  3. derived from *būcus✻
  4. derived from buc — “abdomen; object with a cavity”
  5. derived from buket
  6. derived from bucc
  7. inherited from buket
  8. suffixed as bucketful — “bucket + ful”

Definitions

  1. The quantity contained in a bucket.

    • "I had a fire lit there, and there is a bucketful of coals. You will be pretty comfortable, I hope."

  2. A large quantity.

    • But out of the water he dared not put his head; for the rain came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; […]
    • "Confound it all," snorted Mr. Tupworthy indignantly, "you're flooding my flat. The water's coming through my bathroom ceiling in bucketfuls. The plaster'll fall next. Can't you stop it? Has a pipe burst or something?"

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA