bottleful

American  

[bot-l-fool] / ˈbɒt lˌfʊl /

noun

bottlefuls plural

1. the amount that a bottle can hold.

   drinking soda by the bottleful.

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• bottlefuls
  plural

Etymology

Origin of bottleful

First recorded in 1860–65; bottle ¹ + -ful

Example Sentences

Reading those bits, and thousands like them, is like uncorking a bottleful of joy and pouring it over my head.

From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2015

And six-year-old Jackie Jenkins, with his bottleful of bugs and headful of lies, is as charming as he was in The Human Comedy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Haste to the wood and get a bottleful of bird-music.’

From The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall by Tregarthen, Enys

I bargained with the Laps subsequently for a large bottleful, and never shall I forget the treat I enjoyed in sipping the new, warm milk on the ground.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various

I never said nothin’ to nobody ’bout it, but I poured the whole bottleful down the sink, and told Doctor Marsh that he needn’t come again.

From The Wall Between by Bassett, Sara Ware