thirty-leven

A form of thirty-eleven — Very many; several dozen; quite a lot.

Meanings

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

    Quicker'an litenin, Mr. Wilson tumbelled, and laffin a fiendish grin, he sung out in axcents wild: "Get me a Gatlin Gun, and lode it down to the mussle with thirty-leven charges of dannymite, and let me get a shot, at that incorragerbel imp of Haydes, the Buster's Devil."

    1883, Walter T. Gray, The Bad Boy at Home..., page 79
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