Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. As much as a bucket will hold.
Wiktionary
- n. the quantity contained in a bucket
- n. by extension a large quantity
GNU Webster's 1913
- a bucket filled with a substance, or the quantity which would fill a bucket.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quantity contained in a bucket
Examples
“The wives and girlfriends of rich sporting celebrities, she argued, displayed this tendency by the "bucketful".”
“bucketful" of the smaller speculators, when business was slack.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
“Which it is anyway – and for those who don't like it, you're free to remove the electrical service to your house, go back to candle-light, cooking at a hearth, and heating your bathwater by the bucketful on your coal - or wood-fired cast-iron stove.”
“He drank it, Ms. Muhlstein says, "by the potful, by the bucketful, despite the terrible cramps wringing his insides, the nervous eye twitches, and the burning in his stomach.”
“Record fees in wrongful arrests of ‘terrorists’, ‘hurt feelings’ and assaulted protestors by the bucketful - the lawyers are moving in for the kill and well they might ask “What recession?””
London G20 Police outnumbered and attacked « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
“The Rev Tim Jones of York has been drenched a bucketful of spaghetti and ravioli thrown over him by a parishioner angered by his suggestion to newly-released criminals that they finance Christmas by shoplifting.”
“They can dish it out by the bucketful, but when it comes to getting some back, they're childish, petulant, and vindictive.”
“He knocked on the door of the convent and presented her with a bucketful of loose coins.”
“A House That Jorge Built: Apr. 16, 2009 The Yankees hit home runs by the bucketful at their new home stadium.”
The Wall Street Journal: Hip! Hip!: Ten Moments That Defined Posada's Career
“There was abundant advice offered by experts Wednesday on what to do when it rains by the bucketful, with all agreeing that seeking a dry place was the best course of action.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bucketful’.
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Imprecise Units of Measurement
A list of terms for units of measurement that are less than exact, such as dessert-spoonful.
two shakes, dessert-spoonful, a pinch, a bit, some, smidge, smidgin, dollop, drop, fleck, smack, sprinkling and 187 more...
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Bucky Fuller's projectiles
R Buckminster Fuller created and coined so many terms and ideas that it certainly warrants a list here.
As RBF said "Dare to be naive."
Bucky would probably say "buck the ...wrapability, indigs, geodesic, compound curvature, omnidirectuional ..., synergetics, tetrahelix, SSRCD numbers, wiz of wiz-dom, cosmic illions, omnitopolgy, tensegrity and 36 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
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Poetrie: Recuerdo
RECUERDO
We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night upon the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable—
merry, ferry, stable, whistle, apple, pear, wan, bucketful, shawl, subway
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