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mountainload

mountainload noun: an excessive amount.

Noun

mountainload (plural mountainloads)

  1. An excessive amount.
    • It puts strange thoughts into one's head about the mountain-load of government under which people exist in Europe, and suggests the idea that we may be over-governed. Think of the hundred Acts of Parliament annually enacted to prevent us, the people of England, from cutting each other's throats, or...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 215

Forms of mountainload

pluralmountainloads
alternative formmountain-load

Origin of mountainload

mountain + load

Questions about mountainload

What does mountainload mean?
Mountainload means an excessive amount.
What part of speech is mountainload?
Mountainload is a noun.
What is the plural of mountainload?
The plural of mountainload is mountainloads.

Words near mountainload in the dictionary

  1. mountainheath
  2. mountainheaths
  3. mountainite
  4. mountainless
  5. mountainlike
  6. mountainload
  7. mountainloads
  8. mountainmint
  9. mountainmints
  10. mountainness
  11. mountainous

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