Eleventy

//ɪˈlɛvənti// num, slang

num, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Numeral
  1. 1
    The number 110, 11 × 10. informal

    "Compounds with other numerals: eleventy-one (111), eleventy-six (116), eleventy first (one-hundred and eleventh), etc."

  2. 2
    An indefinite large number. colloquial

    "No grown-up people, no babies, no girls. It was a world of boys, eleventy and a hundred strong."

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"Compounds with other numerals: eleventy-one (111), eleventy-six (116), eleventy first (one-hundred and eleventh), etc."

Etymology

From eleven + -ty, from Old English hundendleftiġ (also spelled hundendleofantiġ, hundendlyftiġ, and hundælleftiġ). See twelfty for more. Popularized in the 20th century by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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