forty-eleven

adjective

Very many; too many to count; quite a lot.

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Meanings

adjectiveforty-eleven (not comparable)

alternative forty eleven · alternative forty-leven · alternative forty-'leven · alternative forty-leben

  1. USdialectalinformalnot comparableVery many; too many to count; quite a lot.

    One day a police jeep come through the village,... and about forty-eleven policemen jump out.

    1975, Timothy Callender, It So Happen, page 113

    Synonyms: countless, legion, eighty-eleven, eleventeen, eleventy, feelefold, fifty-eleven, manifold

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveVery many; too many to count; quite a lot.

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countlesslegioneighty-eleveneleventeeneleventyfeelefoldfifty-elevenmanifoldmanymanyfoldmorefoldmultiplemultiplicatemultipliedninety-elevennumbersomenumerousseventy-elevenseveral
Also see
eighty-elevenfifty-elevenmanifoldmultitudinousninety-elevenseventy-elevensixty-eleventhirty-eleventwenty-eleven

Origin

From humorous use of eleven to continue counting the forties.

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Chicago

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