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thirty-eleven

adj

Etymology

From humorous use of eleven to continue counting the thirties.

Definitions

  1. Very many

    Very many; several dozen; quite a lot.

    • "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..."
    • "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?"

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA