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bucketful

[ buhk-it-fool ]

/ ˈbʌk ɪtˌfʊl /

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noun, plural buck·et·fuls.

the amount that a bucket can hold: a bucketful of water.

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Origin of bucketful

First recorded in 1555–65; bucket + -ful

usage note for bucketful

See -ful.

Words nearby bucketful

bucker, bucket, bucket about, bucket brigade, bucket conveyor, bucketful, bucket ladder, bucket list, bucket out, bucket seat, bucket shop

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How to use bucketful in a sentence

If he thinks a dish needs more salt, he adds it not by the pinch but by the bucketful.
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Fortunately, Patrick Page displays it by the bucketful in the wonderful “All the Devils Are Here,” his one-man walk-through of some of the nastiest pieces of work in the canon.
For Patrick Page, it’s Shakespeare’s bad guys who steal the show|Peter Marks|February 25, 2021|Washington Post
She ran to the well and drew a bucketful of clear cold water, which she carried to the cabin.
Bee and Butterfly|Lucy Foster Madison
Richard examined every bucketful of earth as he pulled it np.
Grif|B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

If they should happen to want another bucketful of water we're lost men.
Humphrey Bold|Herbert Strang
As he hurried away to the public-house, white with ire, he met his gamekeeper coming in with a bucketful of fish fresh caught.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866|Various
We did gather a great many, about a bucketful, and threw them into the rain-pool, where some of them now are.
The Romance of Natural History, Second Series|Philip Henry Gosse