passel

plural passels

1. AppalachiainformalAn indeterminately large quantity or group.

   A fist-pumping, howling passel of Bush administration officials.

   2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment

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   That child will like as not come here with a passel o' things borrowed from the rest o' the family. She'll have Hannah's shoes and John's undershirts and Mark's socks most likely.

   1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

2. collectiveA group of opossums or possums.

   Just like a passel of opossums in a gunny sack

   2022, Lynn Jenkins, Call of The Tennessee Hog Cat

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   Marking each baby with a different color is another way for rehabbers to tell who's who in a passel of possums.

   2022, Ally Burguieres, Possums Are Not Cute!: And Other Myths about Nature's Most Misunderstood Critter, Quirk Books

   I could tell by the look on his face that he was mighty proud of his passel of possums.

   2014, Stanley Mcqueen, Wings of Heaven, BookRix

   At the first symptoms of trouble, we'll be down upon 'em like a passel of 'possums on a couple of persimmons.

   1908, Alfred Henry Lewis, Wolfville Folks, Macauley, page 140

   Marius, an elder from Bayau, explained this to me as we sat in the shade of a sago palm watching a passel of possums jostling in the canopy.

   2022, Sophie Chao, In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua, Duke University Press

   very handy if you are a mother opossum climbing a tree with a passel of opossum kits on your back

   2013, Lyanda Lynn Haupt, The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild, Little, Brown