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Definition of billyful in English: billyfulnounˈbɪlɪfʊl Australian, NZ As much as can be held or carried in a billy. he'd gone down to the creek for a billyful of water Example sentencesExamples - I gathered a billyful of mussels, which we had for supper.
- We agreed to sacrifice a small billyful of our remaining stock of water for this unfortunate last victim to our enterprise.
- So I picked a billyful of mushrooms for Patty and me and a paper-bagful of toadstools for Folsom.
- Rich patches of the precious metal occur frequently, and a man took 54 ounces out of what he described as a 'billyful of stuff'.
- The coldest natural temperature recorded on earth (-89°C) was recorded there—so cold that, toss a billyful of liquid water high in the air, and it crashes to the ground as ice.
- Then she was standing in the gateway, as she had stood at the door the other morning when she came with the billyful of soup.
- He threw more wood on top of the socks and made a billyful of tea to start the morning off.
- Clutching my brimming billyful of milk, I make my way carefully back across the 'home-paddock' to the gravel road.
- We managed to pick up a billyful of plum pudding as well as apple pies and cream, which had been ordered in anticipation on the previous Friday night.
- He watched as we staggered in, and he handed us a billyful of orange juice.
Origin Mid 19th century: from billy1 + -ful. |