sixty-eleven
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sixty-eleven
Where it comes from
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.
adjective sixty-leven · sixty-'leven
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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.
Similar: countless, legion, eighty-eleven, eleventeen, eleventy, feelefold, fifty-eleven, forty-eleven, manifold, many, manyfold, morefold
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Synonym of seventy-one.
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Similar: seventy-one
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title = {sixty-eleven},
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