bucketful

American  

[buhk-it-fool] / ˈbʌk ɪtˌfʊl /

noun

• bucketfuls
  plural

1. the amount that a bucket can hold.

   a bucketful of water.

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Spelling

See -ful.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bucketfuls
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of bucketful

First recorded in 1555–65; bucket + -ful

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Example Sentences

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bucketful bucketfuls

I have friends who choke down Greek yogurt by the bucketful, who eat handfuls of grilled chicken at a time, who dead lift their own body weight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Pour a bucketful of water on the table’s treetop canopy and watch the rainforest in action.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2022

The family unearthed bivalves by the bucketful, reaching the most plentiful beaches with their motorized metal dinghy.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 24, 2022

At exactly 11:17, once the crew had relocated a butterfly bush and three baby garter snakes curled up among its roots, the first bucketful of dirt was removed.

From Washington Post ● May 28, 2021

I jumped up and down, and cried a whole bucketful of tears.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

She remembered trailing behind her grandmother cutting roses in her garden, lugging bucketfuls of flowers and inhaling the sweetness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

“My hope is you will resist those bucketfuls of money,” Blumenthal told the Tour witnesses.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2023

They are absolutely delicious and we have bucketfuls of them every year.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2022

“Sweeney” is usually gruesome, and bucketfuls of artificial gore were thrown around the stage at Glimmerglass on Friday, but this production felt bloodless.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2016

Waves broke over the bows, where bucketfuls of water streamed through the flimsy decking.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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