bucketful

English

Etymology

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

Noun

bucketful (plural bucketfuls or bucketsful)

1. The quantity contained in a bucket.

   Synonym: pailful

   • 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."

2. (by extension) A large quantity.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lot

   It was raining in bucketfuls.

Translations

quantity contained in a bucket

• Finnish: sangollinen (fi)
• Ido: siteledo
• Irish: lán buicéid m
• Portuguese: baldada f
• Russian: ведро́ (ru) n (vedró)
• Welsh: bwcedaid m

large quantity

• Finnish: saavillinen