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

Noun Inflected Forms

• bottlefuls
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of bottleful

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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

bottleful bottlefuls

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 Enys Tregarthen

The whole bottleful was devoured at once as a sweetmeat, and the lad's life was rescued with difficulty because of intense nervous shock occasioned thereby.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

“Nothing is easier,” he replied; “pour a bottleful of water into an earthen bowl and give it to me.”

From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

To have it the handier, she poured both bottlefuls into an empty demijohn and put the Spoon beside it in the cupboard.

From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens

The doctor, who had not been able to examine this substance when he saw it on crimson cliffs from Baffin's Bay, here examined it at his ease, and gathered several bottlefuls of it.

From The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Edouard Riou

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