fifty-eleven

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fifty-eleven

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From humorous use of eleven to continue counting the fifties.

adjective fifty eleven · fifty-leven · fifty-'leven · fifty-leben · 50-11

  1. US, dialectal, informal, not comparable Very many; too many to count; quite a lot. When Sunday comes, he asks his wife, "Have you made Mary's dress? Is Nellie's hat trimmed? Did you get Johnny's pants and vest done? Have you sewed the hat that was torn? Are my new pants ready to wear? Did you get my undershirt and drawers made?" and fifty-eleven other things are expected to be don

    Similar: countless, legion, eighty-eleven, eleventeen, eleventy, feelefold, fifty-eleven, forty-eleven, manifold, many, manyfold, morefold

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@misc{fifty_eleven_2026,
  title = {fifty-eleven},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fifty-eleven},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}