English Explanatory Dictionary

bucket

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
  2. The amount held in this container.
  3. A large amount of liquid.
  4. A great deal of anything.
  5. A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
  6. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
  7. Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
  8. An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
  9. The basket.
  10. A field goal.
  11. A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
  12. A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
verb
  1. To place inside a bucket.
  2. To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
  3. To rain heavily.
  4. To travel very quickly.
  5. To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
  6. To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
  7. To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
  8. To engage in an illegal practice where a broker confirms a client's trade order without actually executing it on the free market.
  9. To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
name
  1. Nickname for Pawtucket: a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.

Pronunciation

bûk'ĭt /ˈbʌkɪt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-bucket.wav /ˈbʌk.ət/ En-us-bucket.ogg /ˈbʊkɪt/ /bəˈkɛʈ/

Word forms

bucket buckets bucketing bucketed the Bucket

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English boket English bucket From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.

Synonyms

pail scoop vane blade banger beater hooptie jalopy wreck crock shitbox rustbucket bucket of bolts bucket of rust clunker crate flivver junker lemon old banger rattletrap shed shitpot shitcan shitbucket tin Lizzie bucket down chuck it down piss down rain cats and dogs hurtle rocket shoot speed whizz book it

Related words

barrel keg pail tub

Derived words

Bambi bucket bargain bucket bit bucket bit-bucket blucket bolt bucket brain-bucket brain bucket bucket and spade bucketball bucket bong bucket brigade bucket chemistry bucket drive bucket drummer bucketeer bucketer bucket flush bucketful bucket hat bucket head bucket-head bucketize bucketless bucketlike bucket line bucket list bucketload bucketmaker bucketmaking bucketmouth bucket naked bucket of blood bucket of bolts bucket of rust bucket of sunshine bucket of syrup bucket orchid bucket rendering bucketry bucket seat bucket shop bucket sort bucket steak bucket truck bucketwheel buckety byte bucket can't carry a tune in a bucket champagne bucket chumbucket couldn't carry a note in a bucket crab bucket syndrome cumbucket cunt bucket cuntbucket diaper bucket drool bucket drop in the bucket fire bucket
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