bucket
/ˈbʌkɪt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.07 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
Example Sentences
- "I need a bucket to carry the water from the well."
- "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."
- "The horse drank a whole bucket of water."
- "It rained buckets yesterday."
- "I was so nervous that I sweated buckets."
- "My new suit cost me buckets."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbʌkɪt/
- British English: /ˈbʌkɪt/