bucketful
English
Etymology
From bucket + -ful. Compare Old English būcful, būcfull (“bucketful”).
Noun
bucketful (plural bucketfuls or bucketsful)
- The quantity contained in a bucket.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "I had a fire lit there, and there is a bucketful of coals. You will be pretty comfortable, I hope."
- Synonym: pailful
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- (by extension) A large quantity.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lot
- It was raining in bucketfuls.
Translations
quantity contained in a bucket
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large quantity
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