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forty-leven

forty-leven is the pronunciation spelling of forty-eleven.

Meaning of forty-eleven

Adjective

forty-eleven (not comparable)

  1. (US, dialectal, informal) Very many; too many to count; quite a lot.
    • One day a police jeep come through the village,... and about forty-eleven policemen jump out.1975, Timothy Callender, It So Happen, page 113

Questions about forty-leven

What is forty-leven the pronunciation spelling of?
Forty-leven is the pronunciation spelling of forty-eleven.

Words near forty-leven in the dictionary

  1. forty-fours
  2. forty-fourth
  3. forty-fourths
  4. forty-leben
  5. forty-legs
  6. forty-leven
  7. forty-nine
  8. forty-niner
  9. forty-niners
  10. forty-ninth
  11. forty-ninth parallel

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