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English
Etymology
From a non-rhotic pronunciation of parcel.
Pronunciation
Noun
passel (plural passels)
- (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.
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