thirty-eleven

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1. USdialectalinformalnot comparableVery many; several dozen; quite a lot.

   "Thirty-eleven... Papa, what comes after thirty eleven?" "There is no thirty-eleven," he said gruffly. "It goes thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty, forty-one." "And then what?"

   1994, Megan Chance, chapter 7, in After the Frost

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   "Comfortable!" fairly shrieked Sophrania. "Yes, comfortable to you because you don't have to climb those ladder-like stairs... nor have you done the distance from the kitchen to the front door thirty-eleven times a day..."

   1920 March 31, Lily Wandel, “Franklin Comes to the Rescue”, in Buffalo Evening Times, page 17

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