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[ pas-uhl ] / ˈpæs əl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR passel ON THESAURUS.COM
noun Informal.a group or lot of indeterminate number: a passel of dignitaries. Origin of passelFirst recorded in 1825–35; alteration of parcel Words nearby passelpasse, passé composé, passed, passed ball, passed pawn, passel, passement, passementerie, passenger, passenger mile, passenger pigeon Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for passelHarold Ramis made a passel of great comedies, but he never made one better than Groundhog Day. Harold Ramis’s ‘Groundhog Day’ Is About as Perfect as a Movie Gets|Malcolm Jones|February 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST Way back during the 2000 Bush-Gore smackdown, I dug around in the data, interviewed undecideds, and called up a passel of experts. Undecided Voters Are a Menace|Michelle Cottle|September 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST After all, didn't she figure out a way to "have it all"—a passel of children, a first dude, and a big job in the public sphere? This Candidate Is Bad For Women|Linda Hirshman|June 9, 2010|DAILY BEAST I've got other things to do besides squirin' a passel o' wimmin folk about, I hev. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, June 15th, 1895|Various
I've got a passel of work to do there, with the weather coming on the way it is. The Moving Picture Girls|Laura Lee Hope There wuz quite a passel ov soljers on the wharf boat waitin' for the ferry when we got there. Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6)|John McElroy Think we went to all that trouble and risk to turn the proceeds over to a passel o kids so easy? Motor Boat Boys' River Chase|Louis Arundel I think, said Mr. Kelly, judgmatically, that thars a passel of Updegraffe people stampedin about the streets. The Sunset Trail|Alfred Henry Lewis
British Dictionary definitions for passel
nouninformal, or dialect, mainly US a group or quantity of no fixed number Word Origin for passelvariant of parcel Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to passelream, scad, profusion, gathering, stockpile, cluster, fullness, jumble, total, mint, bunch, mountain, congeries, lots, sum, trillion, much, hill, hoard, agglomeration |