bottleful

American  

[bot-l-fool] / ˈbɒt lˌfʊl /

noun

plural

bottlefuls

1. the amount that a bottle can hold.

   drinking soda by the bottleful.

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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

The crew are to look after the sheep and every day will have to give each one a bottleful of water.

From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Barrow, Katherine Mary

Were a bottleful of concentrated miasma, such as we inhale herein, collected, what a deadly poison, instantaneous in its action, undiscoverable in its properties, would it be!

From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)

Turold said this was different—the man had brought back a little bottleful of diamonds.

From The Moon Rock by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)