buttload

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buttload

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From butt + load. Butt in this context may be possibly one or both of:

* butt (“large wooden cask”) (Etymology 3)

* butt (“two-wheeled cart”) (Etymology 5)

Alternatively, the term may either be a corruption of English boatload or have been influenced by that term (except for the specific, West Country dialect sense).

All senses above also synchronically reanalyzed as buttocksful.

noun buttloads · butt-load · butt load

UK, West Country, obsolete A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons. BUTT LOAD: about six seams.
Similar: buttful
New England, Southern US, UK, dated A large amount carried in a butt. We spent all day Sunday and picked up a buttload of pecans.
broadly, mildly, slang, vulgar Any large but unspecific amount. You can collect a metric buttload of data about user activity on your site without too much effort.
Similar: assload, shitload, boatload, cartload, shedload, abundance, battalion, arseload, bellyload, brimful, busload, bucketful

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@misc{buttload_2026,
  title = {buttload},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/buttload},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}