bucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bûk'ĭt
ipa: /ˈbʌkɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈbʌkət/
note: Indic
ipa: /bə(k)ˈkɛʈ/
rhymes: -ʌkɪt
rhymes: (Indic) -ɛt
Forms: form: buckets
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.
text: The crab was cool and very light. But the water was thick with sand, and so, scrambling down, Jacob was about to jump, holding his bucket in front of him, when he saw, stretched entirely rigid, side by side, their faces very red, an enormous man and woman.
ref: 1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob's Room:
synonyms: pail
glosses: A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
examples: text: The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
glosses: The amount held in this container.
examples: text: It rained buckets yesterday.
text: I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.
glosses: A large amount of liquid.
examples: text: My new suit cost me buckets.
text: We had buckets of fun.
glosses: A great deal of anything.
glosses: A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
synonyms: scoop
vane
blade
glosses: Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
glosses: Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
synonyms: word: banger
word: beater
word: hooptie
word: jalopy
word: wreck
word: crock
word: shitbox
word: rustbucket
word: banger
word: beater
word: bucket of bolts
word: bucket of rust
word: clunker
word: crate
word: crock
word: flivver
word: hooptie
word: jalopy
word: junker
word: lemon
word: old banger
word: rattletrap
word: rustbucket
word: shed
word: shitbox
word: shitpot
word: shitcan
word: shitbucket
word: tin Lizzie
word: wreck
glosses: An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
examples: text: The forward drove to the bucket.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The basket.
examples: text: We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
text: [Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get hot on the block.
ref: 2019 February 25, Brett Dawson, Fred Katz, “How power forward Markieff Morris might fit in with the Thunder”, in The Athletic:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A field goal.
qualifier: variation management
glosses: A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
examples: text: Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos.
ref: 1989, Susan Ludwig, Janice Steinberg, Petite Style, page 46:
glosses: A bucket bag.
glosses: The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
glosses: The pitcher in certain orchids.
glosses: A helmet.
Derived terms: 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
cuntbucket
cunt bucket
diaper bucket
drool bucket
drop in the bucket
fire-bucket
fire bucket
gin bucket
grab bucket
great bit bucket in the sky
gutbucket
helibucket
helicopter bucket
holy bucket
honey bucket
ice bucket
ice bucket challenge
in the bucket
jizz bucket
kick the bucket
lardbucket
lard-bucket
leaky bucket
light bucket
lunch bucket
mercy bucket
monsoon bucket
mop bucket
mudbucket
nappy bucket
orange-peel bucket
paint bucket
rust-bucket
rustbucket
rust bucket
scruffbucket
scuzzbucket
sleazebucket
slimebucket
slop bucket
spit bucket
sweat buckets
tarbucket
thrust bucket
token bucket
turdbucket
two tears in a bucket
Veronica bucket
Related terms: barrel
keg
pail
tub