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buttload

noun

Etymology

From butt + load. Butt in this context may be possibly one or both of: * butt (“large wooden cask”) (Etymology 3) * butt (“two-wheeled cart”) (Etymology 5) Alternatively, the term may either be a corruption of English boatload or have been influenced by that term (except for the specific, West Country dialect sense). All senses above also synchronically reanalyzed as buttocksful.

  1. derived from *leyt-✻
  2. inherited from *laidō✻
  3. inherited from lād
  4. inherited from lode
  5. compounded as buttload — “butt + load”

Definitions

  1. A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or…

    A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons.

    • BUTT LOAD: about six seams.

  2. A large amount carried in a butt.

    • We spent all day Sunday and picked up a buttload of pecans.

  3. Any large but unspecific amount.

    • You can collect a metric buttload of data about user activity on your site without too much effort.
    • Anyway, they are paying me a buttload of money to do this series, and I want to share my good fortune with you and that's that.
    • "Yeah, there's, like, a buttload of gangs at this school."

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