passel

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English

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Etymology

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Alteration of parcel.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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passel (plural passels)

  1. (US, informal) An indeterminately large quantity or group.
    • 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm:
      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.
    • 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:
      A fist-pumping, howling passel of Bush administration officials.

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