bucket

Meaning

Noun

1. A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
2. The amount held in this container.
3. (in-plural, informal) A large amount of liquid.
4. (in-plural, informal) A great deal of anything.
5. (UK, archaic) A unit of measure equal to four gallons.
6. Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
7. (derogatory, slang) Someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
8. (slang) An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
9. (informal) The basket.
10. (informal) A field goal.
11. A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
12. A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
13. (uncommon) A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
14. A bucket bag.
15. The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
16. The pitcher in certain orchids.
17. (humorous, slang) A helmet.

Verb

1. (transitive) To place inside a bucket.
2. (transitive) To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
3. (informal, intransitive) To rain heavily.
4. (informal, intransitive) To travel very quickly.
5. (transitive) To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
6. (Australia, slang, transitive) To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
7. (transitive) To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
8. (UK, US, transitive) To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.

Synonyms

pail

tub

container

pot

scoop

bottle

case

can

jar

🫙

dipper

cask

tank

bucketful

urn

basket

🧺

chest

box

📦

vessel

tin

barrel

sack

jug

ladle

crate

cooking pot

bin

kettle

rain dogs and cats

rain cats and dogs

digger

bunch

bulk

coffeepot

coal scuttle

milk

🥛

kibble

clunker

cistern

bbl

keg

junker

cheat

jalopy

hustle

hurry

bowl

hod

glass

car

🚗

ferry

⛴️

Translations

seau

Eimer

🪣

secchio

🪣

emmer

🪣

cubo

balde

🪣

galleda

🪣

κουβάς

balde

kova

🪣

secchia

Kübel

caçamba

bugliolo

🪣

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʌkɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: buket

Cognate with Jèrriais: boutchet

Cognate with Jèrriais: bouquet

Cognate with Occitan: -

Cognate with Catalan: buc

In summary

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.