twenty-eleven

== English == === Alternative forms === twenty-leven, twenty-'leven === Etymology === From humorous use of eleven to continue counting the twenties. === Adjective === twenty-eleven (not comparable) (informal, chiefly US, dialectical) Very many; several dozen; quite a lot. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:manifold 1831, Anonymous, "A Collection on Drawings", American Comic Annual, p. 182: I ask dem for some sup; dey give me littel bit of bread and sheese—I say I was hope I shall be put to bed agreeable—dey put me in a garret! and all de night twenty-eleven rats shall run 'bout, as if to play at a blindman's bluff. ==== Related terms ==== thirty-eleven, forty-eleven, fifty-eleven, sixty-eleven, seventy-eleven, eighty-eleven, ninety-eleven === References === “eleven, adj. & n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.