twentyodd en · NUM
Etymology
From twenty + -odd.
Meanings
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Slightly more than twenty.
Ypres was not the actual start of the front; that distinction belongs to Nieuport, a city on the North Sea twentyodd miles down the river Yser from Ypres.
1986 November 14, Jack Beatty, “Along the Western Front”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2022: