bottomful
nounEtymology From bottom + -ful.
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No plural The amount that a bottom (all senses) can hold.
- Early in each picking session , I was able to answer the question quite accurately by "I have almost a bottomful” or by “ I have a little more than a bottomful.”1990, Reino Nikolai Hannula, Bluberry God:
- “Did you ever see,”—the barrister's wife was frowning now—"a bottomful of monkeys? That is to say, a cageful of blooming monkey bottoms?”2002, Patrick White, Riders in the Chariot, page 323:
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- To cap it all, a tumble onto a passing echidna has left her with a bottomful of prickles.2012, Amanda O'Shea, Poppy and Max: