bottomful

English

Etymology

From bottom +‎ -ful.

Noun

bottomful (plural not attested)

1. The amount that a bottom (all senses) can hold.
   • 1990, Reino Nikolai Hannula, Bluberry God:

     Early in each picking session , I was able to answer the question quite accurately by "I have almost a bottomful” or by “ I have a little more than a bottomful.”

   • 2002, Patrick White, Riders in the Chariot, page 323:

     “Did you ever see,”—the barrister's wife was frowning now—"a bottomful of monkeys? That is to say, a cageful of blooming monkey bottoms?”

   • 2012, Amanda O'Shea, Poppy and Max:

     To cap it all, a tumble onto a passing echidna has left her with a bottomful of prickles.