Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A quantity sufficient to fill a tub; as much as a tub will hold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun As much as a tub will hold; enough to fill a tub.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an amount that would
fill atub
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the amount that a tub will hold
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word tubful.
Examples
-
Mix 1 cup of apple-cider vinegar into a tubful of bath water.
Hints From Heloise washingtonpost.com 2010
-
All I wanted was to get home and collapse in a tubful of hot, soapy water and enjoy some peace and quiet.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010
-
All I wanted was to get home and collapse in a tubful of hot, soapy water and enjoy some peace and quiet.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010
-
All I wanted was to get home and collapse in a tubful of hot, soapy water and enjoy some peace and quiet.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010
-
I ran a tubful of hot water, lit some candles in a memorial to the career that would never be, and took a look in the mirror at the face that would never play the Palace.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Mom Jack Canfield 2009
-
I ran a tubful of hot water, lit some candles in a memorial to the career that would never be, and took a look in the mirror at the face that would never play the Palace.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Mom Jack Canfield 2009
-
I think that even those of us not planning to cast a line this spring could use a good tubful of Fish House Punch these days.
-
But as it tells its extended tale about a suburban psychotherapist struggling with his own personal problems while feeling increasingly challenged by those of his patients, Treatment offers the very thing that daytime serials used to provide by the tubful but rarely deliver anymore: Relationship-driven drama that builds to periodic emotional payoffs, all coming from messy conflicts between the characters and the people they love.
"In Treatment": For HBO, It's Something Completely Different 2008
-
Hes a Briton, right now thats enough to get him into a tubful of trouble.
The Edge of Madness Michael Dobbs 2008
-
Without thinking, she reached for her phone, only it wasnt thereor rather, it still wasnt there because it was still at her house, still sunk at the bottom of that tubful of water.
Cruel Intent J.A. Jance 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.