单词 | eleventy |
释义 | eleventyadj. humorous. Chiefly in combination with a number or other quantifier: amounting to a very large (but indefinite) number or quantity. Also occasionally: one hundred and ten. ΚΠ 1841 Bell's Life in London 23 May 2/2 We calculate about eleven hundred and eleventy-eleven [carriages]. 1905 Boston Post 18 Apr. 6/3 She got a rug remnant at a bargain sale downtown for eleventy-nine cents. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring i. i. 29 Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday. 1986 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Jan. 4 e/1 The number of copies made in American offices grew from about 20 million in 1955..to approximately eleventy zillion today. 2015 Sc. Sun (Nexis) 17 Jan. 31 Every week we are told that traffic congestion costs Britain's economy eleventy billion pounds a second. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1841 |
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