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fortyodd

fortyodd numeral: slightly more than forty.

Numeral

fortyodd

  1. Slightly more than forty.
    • Fortyodd miles of twisting, climbing, and dropping along the winding back of the ridge made you feel as though you had been riding a cockleshell in a storm.1951 August, Clark C. Van Fleet, “The Steelhead”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2022

Origin of fortyodd

From forty + -odd.

Questions about fortyodd

What does fortyodd mean?
Fortyodd means slightly more than forty.
What part of speech is fortyodd?
Fortyodd is a numeral.

Words near fortyodd in the dictionary

  1. fortyfive
  2. fortyfold
  3. fortyfour
  4. fortyish
  5. fortynine
  6. fortyodd
  7. fortyone
  8. fortypenny
  9. fortyseven
  10. fortysix
  11. fortysomething

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