English Explanatory Dictionary

eighty-eleven

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Very many; too many to count; quite a lot.
  2. Synonym of ninety-one.

Word forms

eighty-eleven eighty eleven eighty-leven eighty-'leven

Etymology

Originally as a calque of French quatre-vingt-onze. In American dialects, from humorous use of eleven to continue counting the eighties.

Synonyms

countless eighty-eleven eleventeen eleventy feelefold fifty-eleven forty-eleven manifold many manyfold morefold multiple multiplicate multiplied ninety-eleven numbersome numerous seventy-eleven several sixty-eleven thirty-eleven twenty-eleven umpteen umpty-ump uncountable ninety-one

Related words

twenty-eleven thirty-eleven forty-eleven fifty-eleven sixty-eleven seventy-eleven ninety-eleven
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