bucketing

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verb drop water or other substance

Word Origin & History

mid-13c., from Anglo-French buquet "bucket, pail," from Old French buquet "bucket," which is from a Germanic source, or a diminutive of cognate Old English buc "pitcher, bulging vessel," originally "belly" (buckets were formerly of leather as well as wood), both from West Germanic *buh- (cf. Dutch buik, Old High German buh, German Bauch "belly"), from PIE *bhou-, variant of root *bheu- "to grow, swell" (see be).

Kick the bucket "to die" (1785) perhaps is from unrelated Old French buquet "balance," a beam from which slaughtered animals were hung; perhaps reinforced by the notion of suicide by hanging after standing on an upturned bucket (but Farmer calls attention to bucket "a Norfolk term for a pulley").

Example Sentences for bucketing

It's a dirty night, and we shall have bucketing weather outside.

As like as not bucketing in the hold of some Greek coaster in the Aegean.

A few minutes later she accused Priscilla of "bucketing," and Frank loved her for the word.

She scarcely spoke at all, and when she replied to Miss Rutherford's accusation of "bucketing" did so incisively.

An hour later it was pitch-dark, and a semi-waterlogged seaplane drifted south, head to sea, bucketing her nose into the lop.

The rain was bucketing down and a chill north-wester howled up the narrow passage leading from the main street to the tiny entry.

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