Etymology

scuttleful

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Today it means: Enough to fill a scuttle. Full definition →

Middle English skuttylfull
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromskuttylfull
  2. English todayscuttleful

From Middle English skuttylfull; equivalent to scuttle + -ful.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.