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bottleful

[ bot-l-fool ]

noun

plural bottlefuls.
  1. the amount that a bottle can hold:

    drinking soda by the bottleful.



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Origin of bottleful1

First recorded in 1860–65; bottle 1 + -ful
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“The world was a bottleful of sparkling darkness and the cops the ones charged with keeping the cork in while the rich shook and shook.”

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Reading those bits, and thousands like them, is like uncorking a bottleful of joy and pouring it over my head.

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In the afternoon, Offandi came on board, and after drinking a glass of rum, begged for a bottleful to take ashore.

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He couldn't think of losing the quinine,—it had cost too much,—and he saved it by drinking that whole bottleful at a gulp.

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Sturgess and I will hunt for water, and bring you a bottleful.

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