🧺 Plentiful amount 🚗 A car trunkful

bootful

9.6

Large enough to fill a car boot

adjective
/ˈbuːtfəl/

: montón

After a day of apple picking, they returned with a bootful of fresh fruit.

Examples

The fishermen were delighted to catch a bootful of fish before noon.
We gathered a bootful of firewood to last us through the weekend.
I have a bootful of apples from the orchard.
We received a bootful of rain last night.
After a day of apple picking, they returned with a bootful of fresh fruit.
The fishermen were delighted to catch a bootful of fish before noon.
We gathered a bootful of firewood to last us through the weekend.

Synonyms

brimful

vsbootful

1 5.2

So full that it almost overflows

expresses a plentiful amount but not necessarily filling completely

chockful

vsbootful

6.3

Full so there is no room left

describes a large or plentiful quantity rather than total container fullness

Antonyms

scarce

103 4.8

Not enough of something for people who need it

meager

48 4.8

Too small in amount or quality to be enough

How Much

truckload

45 2.9

load

278 1.1

bootful

9.6

handful

81 1.0

pinch

13 1.0

Surface Forms

bootful positive

Morphology

bootful = boot (transparent) = boot + ful

The word follows the productive pattern boot + -ful meaning 'as much as fills a boot' (analogous to 'handful' or 'cupful'), so the sense is directly derivable.

Etymology

Bootful comes from boot and -ful, where -ful means 'full of'. So a bootful is 'full enough to fill a boot' and is a playful way to say 'a lot' or 'plentiful'.