bucketful
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 20
- Words With Friends
- 25
- Letters
- 9
Definition of bucketful
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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."”
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noun
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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."”
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(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; […]”
“"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?"”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From bucket + -ful. Compare Old English būcful, būcfull (“bucketful”).
Words you can make from bucketful
75 playable · top: BUCKET (14 pts)
Best play bucket 14 points6-letter words
3 words5-letter words
7 words4-letter words
31 words- FECK 13 pts
- FUCK 13 pts
- BECK 12 pts
- BUCK 12 pts
- BULK 10 pts
- CUKE 10 pts
- LUCK 10 pts
- TUCK 10 pts
- CLEF 9 pts
- FLUB 9 pts
- CLUB 8 pts
- CUBE 8 pts
- KELT 8 pts
- LEKU 8 pts
- FELT 7 pts
- FLUE 7 pts
- FUEL 7 pts
- LEFT 7 pts
- BELT 6 pts
- BLET 6 pts
- BLUE 6 pts
- BUTE 6 pts
- CELT 6 pts
- CLUE 6 pts
- CULT 6 pts
- CUTE 6 pts
- LUBE 6 pts
- LUCE 6 pts
- TUBE 6 pts
- LUTE 4 pts
- TULE 4 pts
3-letter words
26 words2-letter words
7 wordsHooks
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