eleventy
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From Old English hundendleftig (also spelled hund-endleofantiᵹ, hund-endlyftiᵹ, and hund-ælleftiᵹ). Popularized in the 20th century by JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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eleventy
- The number 110, 11 x 10.
- Compounds with other numerals: eleventy-one (= 111), eleventy-six (= 116), eleventy-first (= one-hundred and eleventh), etc.
- 1955 (1974), JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, page 43, 54:
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- [Bilbo] announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday
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“Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today!”
- [Bilbo] announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday
- 1980, Janet Caudle, State and Interstate Fishery Jurisdiction: Problems and Progress : Proceedings of a Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1979 : October 29-31, 1979, page 149:
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- without having to go back through the thousand and eleventy-three days to alter the plan
- 2007, Doug Lowe, Networking for Dummies, page 174:
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- Eight-Oh-Two-Dot-Eleventy Something [= 802.11a, 802.11b, etc.]
- (colloquial) An indefinite large number.
- May 1921, Margaret Wilson, “A Little Boy's Utopia”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 670:
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- No grown-up people, no babies, no girls. It was a world of boys, eleventy and a hundred strong.
- 2005, Robert M Sapolsky, Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals, page 19:
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- People used to think that the first eleventy letters of the DNA message would comprise Gene 1.
