"passel" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpæsl/ Forms: passels [plural]
Rhymes: -æsəl Etymology: Alteration of parcel. Etymology templates: {{m|en|parcel}} parcel Head templates: {{en-noun}} passel (plural passels)
  1. (US, informal) An indeterminately large quantity or group. Tags: US, informal

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for passel meaning in English (1.8kB)

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        {
          "ref": "1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm",
          "text": "That child will like as not come here with a passel o' things borrowed from the rest o' the family. She'll have Hannah's shoes and John's undershirts and Mark's socks most likely.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of \"the Jackass Moment\"”, in Media+Environment",
          "text": "A fist-pumping, howling passel of Bush administration officials.",
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        "(US, informal) An indeterminately large quantity or group."
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      "ipa": "/ˈpæsl/"
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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          "ref": "2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of \"the Jackass Moment\"”, in Media+Environment",
          "text": "A fist-pumping, howling passel of Bush administration officials.",
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