sixty-eleven

Adjective

sixty-eleven (not comparable)

1. (US, dialectal, informal) Very many; too many to count; quite a lot.
   • Regardless of the fact there are some "sixty-eleven" other creams on the market, this new cream out of the West is getting what appears to be a permanent and prominent place on the dealers' shelves through national advertising.1917 July, Sherley Hunter, “Novelty Puts Another Face Cream on the Map”, in Advertising & Selling, page 12

   Synonyms:

   countless, legion, eighty-eleven, eleventeen, eleventy, feelefold, fifty-eleven, forty-eleven, manifold, many

2. (obsolete) Synonym of seventy-one.
   • Samyn yer, viz. ane M Vᶜ sexte lewn yeris the xxii. day of Februar, there com eftyr nown ane gret storym and snaw and hayll and wind that na man nor best micht tak up ther heddis nor gang nor ryd, and mony bestis war parcist furth in the storm, and mony men and vemen war parisht in syndry partis...a. 1580, James MacGregor, Chronicle of Fortingall, s.v. 1571
   • In the epilogue to the printed volume of the Recuyell, Caxton explicitly states that his work was "begun in Bruges, continued in Ghent, and finished in Cologne in the time of the troublous world, and of the great divisions being and reigning as well in the realms of England and France as in all...1877 June 16, Anonymous, "William Caxton, Printer and Mercer...", Part III, All the Year Round..., New Series Vol. 18, No. 446, p. 367

   Synonyms:

   seventy-one