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sixty-eleven

adj

Etymology

Originally as a calque of French soixante-onze, soixante et onze, &c. In American dialects, from humorous use of eleven to continue counting the sixties.

  1. derived from soixante-onze

Definitions

  1. Very many

    Very many; too many to count; quite a lot.

    • Regardless of the fact there are some "sixty-eleven" other creams on the market, this new cream out of the West is getting what appears to be a permanent and prominent place on the dealers' shelves through national advertising.

  2. Synonym of seventy-one.

    • For numbers seventy-one to seventy-nine, it proceeds as soixante-onze (sixty-eleven), soixante-douze (sixty-twelve), up to soixante-dix-neuf (sixty-nineteen).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sixty-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