passel

English

Etymology

From a non-rhotic pronunciation of parcel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæsl/
• Rhymes: -æsəl

Noun

passel (plural passels)

1. (US, informal) An indeterminately large quantity or group.
   • 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm:

     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.

   • 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:

     A fist-pumping, howling passel of Bush administration officials.

Anagrams

• Slapes, lapses, saleps, sepals, spales