If you’re looking for a placeholder when you can’t remember someone’s name, there’s always whats-her-bucket. Or try using the Newfoundland catch-all term buddy, as in buddy wasisname. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Whats...
The idiom “kick the bucket,” meaning to die, does not originate from the concept of kicking a bucket out from under one’s feet. It has to do with an older meaning of bucket that refers to the wooden beam often found in a barn roof...
bucket baby n.— «Not for bucket babies…This is a great car seat! We borrowed an infant seat from a friend for our daughter’s first two weeks, but disliked it because she slouched down, her head flopped over, and the straps didn’t...
bucket baby n.— «Since then, Walker has been negotiating with the USDA but secured clemency for only his four “bucket babies,” pet elk he’d bottle-fed as calves.» —“Fear of disease triggers elk slaughter” by...
bucket baby n.— «She will be going to her first ever halter show on April 1st.…We were worried that she would be stunted due to being a bucket baby, but that was not the case with her.» —“Meet Our Rescue/Rehab...
bucket baby n.— «“What is a Bucket Baby?” “A foal or calf or whatever that has not got a mother to nurse for whatever reason and it fed milk or milk replacer with a bucket instead of a bottle.”» —“Re: ’Bucket...