From: Greg Ederer (greg@earthdot.org)
Date: Sat Aug 05 2000 - 02:54:17 MDT
> "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net> wrote:
> > English tip of the day:
> > Hey Max, the word is 'buttloads', not buckloads, as in,"I just dumped a
> > big fat buttload of cash into toilet company stock."
>
> "Buckloads" makes sense with money, to me anyway. I have always assumed
> that "buttloads" was a derivative of "boatloads", meaning massive amounts
of
> cargo. Any idea where this word really comes from?
>
Bucket-loads.
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