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

Etymology

Origin of bottleful

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

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

"A bottleful would never be missed," interposed Skinny.

From Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 by Various

None of the condiments are expensive, and so little is used at a time that one bottleful lasts a long time.

From The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

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