bootful
- noun
- /ˈbuːtfəl/
- UK
:
carga
- My car was loaded with a bootful of groceries for the weekend barbecue.
Examples
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After a heavy snowfall, we had a bootful of snow in the driveway that needed to be cleared.
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There was over a p155 bootful of snow on the ground.
Fiction book (1993) -
He joked that he had a bootful of leftover Halloween candy he didn't know what to do with.
Synonyms
5
8.5
A very large amount of something said jokingly
4
1.1
An amount that fills a bag, like apples or candies
4
1.8
An amount that fills a bucket
2
4.4
An amount that fills a large suitcase or a car's storage space
1
3.2
An amount that fills a sack, like a large bag of apples
1
2.8
An amount of earth or snow that fills a shovel
1
2.7
An amount that fills a truck
1
8.2
A load of things that fills a car
1
4.4
An amount that fills a pail
An amount that fills a wagon
An amount that a shoe can hold
Antonyms
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bootful as a noun comes from boot and -ful, and in British English boot also means the car 'trunk', so a bootful is 'an amount that fills the trunk' and is often used humorously for a large load.