forty-eleven en · ADJ
Etymology
From humorous use of eleven to continue counting the forties.
Meanings
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(US, dialectal, informal, not-comparable) Very many; too many to count; quite a lot.
One day a police jeep come through the village,... and about forty-eleven policemen jump out.
1975, Timothy Callender, It So Happen, page 113:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| forty-leben | alternative | lexicographic | |
| forty eleven | alternative | lexicographic | |
| forty-leven | alternative | lexicographic | |
| forty-'leven | alternative | lexicographic |
Relateds
seventy-eleven · ninety-eleven · thirty-eleven · eighty-eleven · twenty-eleven · fifty-eleven · sixty-eleven
Synonyms
seventy-eleven · countless · forty-eleven · fifty-eleven · eighty-eleven · several · multiplied · morefold · numerous · twenty-eleven · numbersome · eleventy · multiple · feelefold · many · thirty-eleven · eleventeen · umpteen · manifold · sixty-eleven · legion · manyfold · uncountable · umpty-ump · multiplicate · ninety-eleven