Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mercy buckets

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English

Syllables: mer-cy buck-ets
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

phrase

Thanks very much.

Humorous

Example Sentences

"1929 "Franklin W. Dixon" (Penguin, →ISBN) Hardy Boys 7: The Secret of the Caves, Chapter 16, p.89: "Well, anyhow, thanks a lot, Mr. Dumont," he added. "Mercy buckets, as you French say.""
"2008 Jonathan Nasaw (Simon and Schuster, →ISBN) Fear Itself p.187: "Mercy buckets—a pleasure doing business with you, dude.""

Etymology

A jocular malapropism (or phono-semantic matching) of French merci beaucoup (“thanks a lot”); influenced by buckets of (“lots of”).

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: merci beaucoup

Usage

Humorous

Inflected Forms

merci buckets (alternative)

Phrases

much grass

Frequently Paired Words

much grass

Questions

What does mercy buckets mean?: Thanks very much.
Where does mercy buckets come from?: It is traced to French.

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