passel

Examples

• All

• Just a passel of memories.

  Ride with the Devil (1999)

• What a beautiful passel of girls they are, and all treasured.

  Blog text (3)

• A whole passel of men!

  3 Godfathers (1948)

• A whole passel of women.

  Sergeant York (1941)

• Off to the right is a passel of white men.

  Blog text (15)

• However, my wife and I had a whole passel of relatives over, several of whom spent the night.

  Blog text (24)

• Rose married a widowed man with a passel of kids and went to live in Chicago.

  Fiction book (1994)

• He sees a priest with a passel of boys in white shirts and blue ties.

  Fiction book (1992)

• He edged through the passel of men around Charissa and came to her side.

  Fiction book (2001)

• One Saturday morning, a whole passel of farm boys gathered on that hill.

Synonyms

L

lot

vspassel

∞ 1.0

A large amount of something

is similar but prefers a slightly informal grouping with of phrase

G

group

vspassel

∞ 1.0

A number of people or things seen as one unit

is more informal and often used with of to mean many

P

plenty

vspassel

∞ 1.0

A large amount that is more than needed

focuses on many without implying sufficiency or excess

C

crowd

vspassel

∞ 1.0

Many people or things are close together in one place

is broader, applying to many without implying close gathering

D

deal

vspassel

∞ 1.4

A large amount of something

is similar but more tied to a casual collective expression

P

pile

vspassel

426 1.9

A heap of things put together

is about number rather than physical piling

S

stack

vspassel

182 1.0

A pile of things placed one on top of another

is about a large number without implying an arranged group

M

mountain

vspassel

• Informal

140 3.2

A very large amount of something that is hard to deal with

is a plain count word and less imagistic or overwhelming

M

mass

vspassel

71 2.7

A large collection of things often including people

is similar but focuses on countable groups used with of

H

host

vspassel

• Literature

69 9.9

A very large group of people, often soldiers

is the everyday, informal way to name many people or things

H

horde

vspassel

68 3.4

A large moving group of people or animals that seems hard to control and overwhelming

is neutral and does not stress movement or disorder

H

heap

vspassel

• Informal

54 1.4

A large amount of things often in a messy pile

is a general count term not stressing disorder or pile shape

L

legion

vspassel

54 5.1

A very large number of people or things

is more casual and commonly used in speech with of

S

slew

vspassel

• Informal

46 5.7

A large number of things or people

is equally numerical but often used in conversational phrases

M

multitude

vspassel

38 4.4

A large number of things or people

is less formal and more idiomatic in everyday speech

R

raft

vspassel

• Informal

14 5.9

A large number of things or people

is similar but slightly more associated with set phrase use

M

mess

vspassel

• Informal

13 2.9

A large number or amount of something

is neutral and standard, not chiefly regional or informal

S

sight

vspassel

• Informal

11 7.8

A large number or amount of something

is standard and used broadly rather than dialectal

P

peck

vspassel

• Archaic

2 8.0

A large number of things used informally to mean a lot

is the common modern alternative without regional flavor

M

muckle

vspassel

• Literature

1 9.9

A large amount of something

is comparable but more formal and tied to set expressions

M

mickle

vspassel

• Archaic

9.9

A large amount of something like land or grain

is the everyday term rather than an old literary form

How Many

myriad

36 6.8

multitude

38 4.4

passel

• Archaic

4 9.5

throng

28 5.9

crowd

∞ 1.0

group

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology