bucketful

Noun

bucketful (plural bucketfuls or bucketsful)

1. The quantity contained in a bucket.
   • "I had a fire lit there, and there is a bucketful of coals. You will be pretty comfortable, I hope."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
   • She had the next bail to me, and told me off in between bucketfuls of milk.1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 27

   Synonyms:

   pailful

2. (broadly) A large quantity.
   • But out of the water he dared not put his head; for the rain came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; […]1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
   • "Confound it all," snorted Mr. Tupworthy indignantly, "you're flooding my flat. The water's coming through my bathroom ceiling in bucketfuls. The plaster'll fall next. Can't you stop it? Has a pipe burst or something?"1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   abundance, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, busload, bucketload, butt-ton