barrelful

[bar-uhl-fool]

bar·rel·ful

[bar-uhl-fool]
noun, plural bar·rel·fuls.
1.
the amount that a barrel can hold.
2.
any large quantity: a barrelful of jokes.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; see barrel, -ful


See -ful.

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Barrelful is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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barrelful

noun
the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold [syn: barrel
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