billyful
/ˈbɪlɪfʊl/noun 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...
- So I picked a billyful of mushrooms for Patty and me and a paper-bagful of toadstools for Folsom.
- I gathered a billyful of mussels, which we had for supper.
- 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.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from billy1 + -ful.