buttload
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons.
— BUTT LOAD: about six seams.
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A large amount carried in a butt.
— We spent all day Sunday and picked up a buttload of pecans.
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Any large but unspecific amount.
— You can collect a metric buttload of data about user activity on your site without too much effort.
词源
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.
* 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.
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