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.
   • 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist‎^[1]:

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

   Synonym: pailful

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
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• Irish: lán buicéid m
• Russian: ведро́ (ru) n (vedró)

large quantity

• Finnish: saavillinen
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