English Explanatory Dictionary

buttload

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons.
  2. A large amount carried in a butt.
  3. Any large but unspecific amount.

Pronunciation

En-au-buttload.ogg

Word forms

buttload buttloads butt-load butt load

Etymology

From butt + load. Butt in this context may be possibly one or both of: * butt (“large wooden cask”) (Etymology 3) * butt (“two-wheeled cart”) (Etymology 5) Alternatively, the term may either be a corruption of English boatload or have been influenced by that term (except for the specific, West Country dialect sense). All senses above also synchronically reanalyzed as buttocksful.

Synonyms

buttful assload shitload boatload cartload shedload abundance battalion arseload bellyload brimful busload bucketful bucketload butt-ton bumload buttload crapload deal fuckload fuckton fuckwad great deal hantle heap hecatomb helluvalot horseload lashings load lot mampus many mass metric fuckton metric shitload mickle mountain muckle multiplicity multitude pile ream shitful shitton sight slew spadeloads sum superflux ton trainload truckload tun vaultful wagonload

Related words

tun pipe hogshead barrel ton cask keg
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