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Assload vs Buttload - What's the difference?

assload | buttload |

Buttload is a synonym of assload.



As nouns the difference between assload and buttload

is that assload is an amount carried by an ass or donkey while buttload is a large amount, possibly a variant of boatload, or perhaps referring to a large container known as a butt.

assload

English

Alternative forms

* ass-load * ass load

Noun

(en noun)
  • An amount carried by an ass or donkey.
  • *1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 435:
  • *:In agreement with Sultan Wais of Sawad there was laid on the Kahraj people an impost of four thousand assloads of rice for the use of the army, and he himself was sent to collect it.
  • (slang, vulgar, US) A large amount.
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    buttload

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A large amount, possibly a variant of boatload, or perhaps referring to a large container known as a butt.
  • We spent all day Sunday and picked up a buttload of pecans.
  • (vulgar, slang) A large amount, originally refering to a large container, butt.
  • * 1999 , Philip Greenspun, Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing , page 267:
  • You can collect a metric buttload of data about user activity on your site without too much effort.
  • * 2004 , Theresa Alan, Spur of the Moment , page 264:
  • Anyway, they are paying me a buttload of money to do this series, and I want to share my good fortune with you and that's that.
  • * 2005 , Napoleon Dynamite: The Complete Quote Book , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 1416915524, page 67:
  • "Yeah, there's, like, a buttload of gangs at this school."

    Alternative forms

    * butt-load

    See also

    * tun (of wine or beer, contains two butts) * pipe (of wine or beer, is 126 gallons or one butt) * hogshead (of wine or beer, one-half butt) * barrel (of wine or beer, one-quarter butt) * ton * cask * keg