bathtubful

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English

Etymology

From bathtub +‎ -ful.

Noun

bathtubful (plural bathtubfuls or bathtubsful)

  1. As much as a bathtub will hold.
    • 1916, New-Church Messenger, page 275:
      We did two small baby bathtubfuls of potatoes, and usually carrots or turnips besides.
    • 1916 September 23, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, “Piccadilly Jim”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 189, number 13, section IV, page 78:
      “You may bring me a brandy-and-soda. Not a large one. A couple of bathtubsful will be enough.”
    • 1957 July 23, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 85th Congress, First Session, page 12476:
      But he [Dr. Dublin] adds: “To absorb a lethal amount of fluoridated water would require drinking 50 bathtubfuls at a sitting • • • To produce even the mildest symptoms of fluoride poisoning would require that the victim swallow two-and-a-half bathtubfuls • • • during a single day.”

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