Bucket

Bucket

1a. To move quickly. Usually, but not always, in the phrase 'bucketing along'. This usage dates from the 19th century.

1b. To pour (with rain). Usually heard in the expression 'it's bucketing down'.

2. (Australian) to criticise or denigrate. This use of the word probably arose from the image of tipping a bucket, e.g. of excrement, over a victim, although the noun

'bucketing' was recorded in England in

1914 in the sense of a harsh or oppressive task.

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