Noun: bucket
| Singular | bucket |
| Plural | buckets |
Sample Sentences
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I need a bucket to carry the water from the well.
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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. [1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob's Room:]
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The horse drank a whole bucket of water.
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It rained buckets yesterday.
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I was so nervous that I sweated buckets.
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My new suit cost me buckets.
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We had buckets of fun.
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The forward drove to the bucket.
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We can't keep giving up easy buckets.
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[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. [2019 February 25, Brett Dawson, Fred Katz, “How power forward Markieff Morris might fit in with the Thunder”, in The Athletic:]
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Avoid bulky styles such as duffle sacks, buckets, doctors' satchels, and hobos. [1989, Susan Ludwig, Janice Steinberg, Petite Style, page 46:]
Nouns inflected like bucket
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
buket', Old English Nouns '
bucc', Catalan Nouns '
buc'.
Verbs referencing "bucket"
Zulu Nouns
ibhakede.