eighty-eleven
adjEtymology
Originally as a calque of French quatre-vingt-onze. In American dialects, from humorous use of eleven to continue counting the eighties.
- derived from quatre-vingt-onze
Definitions
Very many
Very many; too many to count; quite a lot.
- ...eighty-eleven other things...
Synonym of ninety-one.
- Q. Do not they go on saying "eighty-eleven" for "ninety-one," &c.? A. Yes, to ninety-nine.
The neighborhood
- neighbortwenty-eleven
- neighborthirty-eleven
- neighborforty-eleven
- neighborfifty-eleven
- neighborsixty-eleven
- neighborseventy-eleven
- neighborninety-eleven
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for eighty-eleven. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA