ninety-leven

A form of ninety-eleven — Very many; too many to count; quite a lot.

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adjectiveninety-leven (not comparable)
  1. USdialectalinformalnot comparablepronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of ninety-eleven, quite a lot.

    ‘Like to see ninety-’leven cavalrymen coming fast. That'd be pretty.’

    1953, Dorothy M. Johnson, Journey to the Fort; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 87
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    Wooh! I am getting positively warm thinking about that. Oh, wait. Maybe it's a hot flash. Or the fact that it's ninety-leven degrees in my corner of Atlanta.

    2007 August 9, Kathy Hogan Trocheck, "Don't Know Jack about Jane", Mary Kate Andrews

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

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