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passel
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Word definitions for passel in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Cosby will bring a passel of his hysterical family tales to the Embassy Centre at 6: 30 and 9 p.m.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Passel is a commune in the Oise department in northern France .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context US informal English) An indeterminately large quantity or group.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1835, dialectal variant of parcel (n.).
Usage examples of passel.
She had served well as queen, breeding a passel of children who were nearly twenty years younger than their oldest sibling, than Tuvashanoran, who had borne all the hopes of the kingdom.
Saturday morning, and apologized for having to make a passel of last-minute business calls from his room.
The experimental cherub lamp had generated a passel of orders--enough to keep her tied to her workshop until the Fourth of July.
The Order were a passel of militant moral fanatics who sought to impose their rules on all the citizens of Otaria.
Denny and Denise, and the usual passel of Dobbs kids all circled close to be first at the cake.
There was a passel of kids, and Ty could never keep their names straight.
A whole passel of archaeologists have been brought on board to analyze every foot of the digging.
Gisella, her sister and brother-in-law, his cousin, who had thrown in his lot with them, and a passel of children, who ranged in age from still-suckling to ten or older.
And after the opening-bell South Carolina debate in early May, Kerry dispatched two media consultants, two pollsters and a passel of press aides to spin webs for reporters.
Blobadjian, accordingly, is pursued through the black end of Baku by a passel of screaming Arabists waving scimitars and grinning horribly.
Nixon was a boythere were plenty of pink ladyfingers and a passel of green leaf-shaped cookies, all of which crumbled into dusty remnants when you picked them up.
This was followed by the sound rather like a passel of cats scratching madly in their litterboxes, but when Edwina went to the wall whence issued these noises and touched the spring catch that opened the desired panel, she revealed their true source, a flock of fountain pens rapidly scribbling away as if guided by unseen hands.
Crush right quick, and he started jabbering something in Spanish and pointing at me, and by the time I'd finished taking a couple of bows and walked back to the dressing room there were a passel of police waiting there for me, and they took me down to the local calaboose and I spent the night there, still in my bullfighting outfit.
I bet you and I disagree on affirmative action and a passel of other things, but you know, Mr.
Now, ain't it the gospel truth that you kin spilt me up into a passel of me-critters?