buttload

发音

AU

词形变化

buttloads 复数 buttloads

别名

butt load butt-load

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons.

    英国 废旧
  2. 2.

    A large amount carried in a butt.

    过时

    We spent all day Sunday and picked up a buttload of pecans.

  3. 3.

    Any large but unspecific amount.

    俚语 粗俗 引申义

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.

来源：wiktionary