different between bucketful vs pailful
bucketful
English
Etymology
From bucket +? -ful. Compare Old English b?cful, b?cfull (“bucketful”).
Noun
bucketful (plural bucketfuls or bucketsful)
- The quantity contained in a bucket.
- Synonym: pailful
- (by extension) a large quantity
- It was raining in bucketfuls.
Translations
bucketful From the web:
- what is bucketful meaning
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- what does the bucketful mean
pailful
English
Alternative forms
- paileful, pailfull (both obsolete)
Etymology
From pail +? -ful.
Noun
pailful (plural pailfuls or pailsful)
- The amount that fills, or would fill, a pail. [from 16th c.]
- 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 118:
- McGrath's lounge was a vast brownish room, with a beige ceiling of heavy plaster divided into squares […] and finally swabbed with pailfuls of gilt.
- 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 118:
Translations
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- what painful periods mean
- what's painful bladder syndrome
- what painful bump on tongue
- what's painful swallowing
- what painful bladder
- what painful period
- what painful is appendicitis
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