sixty-eleven

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Very many; too many to count; quite a lot. US,dialectal,informal,not-comparable
    — Regardless of the fact there are some "sixty-eleven" other creams on the market, this new cream out of the West is getting what appears to be a permanent and prominent place on the dealers' shelves through national advertising.
  2. Synonym of seventy-one. not-comparable,obsolete
    — Samyn yer, viz. ane M Vᶜ sexte lewn yeris the xxii. day of Februar, there com eftyr nown ane gret storym and snaw and hayll and wind that na man nor best micht tak up ther heddis nor gang nor ryd, and mony bestis war parcist furth in the storm, and mony men and vemen war parisht in syndry partis...

词形变化

sixty-leven alternative sixty-'leven alternative

词汇关系

相关词
twenty-eleven thirty-eleven forty-eleven fifty-eleven seventy-eleven eighty-eleven ninety-eleven

词源

Originally as a calque of French soixante-onze, soixante et onze, &c. In American dialects, from humorous use of eleven to continue counting the sixties.
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