passel
/ˈpæsl/
passel noun: an indeterminately large quantity or group.
Noun
passel (plural passels)
- An indeterminately large quantity or group.
- 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.1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- A fist-pumping, howling passel of Bush administration officials.2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment
- A group of opossums or possums.
- Marking each baby with a different color is another way for rehabbers to tell who's who in a passel of possums.2022, Ally Burguieres, Possums Are Not Cute!: And Other Myths about Nature's Most Misunderstood Critter, Quirk Books
- I could tell by the look on his face that he was mighty proud of his passel of possums.2014, Stanley Mcqueen, Wings of Heaven, BookRix
passel meaning in Tamil
passel in Tamil
- குழு, உறுதியற்ற அல்லது குறிப்பிடப்படாத எண்
Examples of passel in a sentence
- At the first symptoms of trouble, we'll be down upon 'em like a passel of 'possums on a couple of persimmons.1908, Alfred Henry Lewis, Wolfville Folks, Macauley, page 140:
- Marius, an elder from Bayau, explained this to me as we sat in the shade of a sago palm watching a passel of possums jostling in the canopy.2022, Sophie Chao, In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua, Duke University Press:
- Just like a passel of opossums in a gunny sack2022, Lynn Jenkins, Call of The Tennessee Hog Cat:
- very handy if you are a mother opossum climbing a tree with a passel of opossum kits on your back2013, Lyanda Lynn Haupt, The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild, Little, Brown:
Forms of passel
| plural | passels |
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Origin of passel
A variant of parcel with dialectal assimilation of /ɹ/ before a coronal consonant.
Words that rhyme with passel
Questions about passel
- What does passel mean?
- Passel means an indeterminately large quantity or group.
- What is passel in Tamil?
- Passel in Tamil is குழு, உறுதியற்ற அல்லது குறிப்பிடப்படாத எண். See Passel meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use passel in a sentence?
- At the first symptoms of trouble, we'll be down upon 'em like a passel of 'possums on a couple of persimmons.
- What part of speech is passel?
- Passel is a noun.
- How do you pronounce passel?
- Passel is pronounced /ˈpæsl/.
- What is the plural of passel?
- The plural of passel is passels.
Words near passel in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: passel (page history and authors); passel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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