Meanings
alternative eighty eleven · alternative eighty-leven · alternative eighty-'leven
- USdialectalinformalnot comparableVery many; too many to count; quite a lot.
...eighty-eleven other things...
1964, Aviation Week & Space Technology, volume 80, page 24Synonyms: countless, legion, eleventeen, eleventy, feelefold, fifty-eleven, forty-eleven, manifold
- not comparableobsoleteSynonym of ninety-one.
Q. Do not they go on saying "eighty-eleven" for "ninety-one," &c.? A. Yes, to ninety-nine.
1854, Percy Sadler, The Stepping Stone to French Pronunciation and Conversation..., p. 65Synonyms: ninety-one
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveVery many; too many to count; quite a lot.
adjectiveSynonym of ninety-one.
Origin
- Frenchquatre-vingt-onze
- Englisheighty-eleven
Originally as a calque of French quatre-vingt-onze. In American dialects, from humorous use of eleven to continue counting the eighties.
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