thirty-eleven

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thirty-eleven

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From humorous use of eleven to continue counting the thirties.

adjective thirty-leven · thirty-'leven

  1. US, dialectal, informal, not comparable 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..."

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

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@misc{thirty_eleven_2026,
  title = {thirty-eleven},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/thirty-eleven},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}