"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?
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