7 March 2016
passel
[pas-uh l]
noun
1. a group or lot of indeterminate number:
a passel of dignitaries.
Origin of passel
1825-1835; alteration of parcel
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Examples from the Web for passel
Contemporary Examples
Way back during the 2000 Bush-Gore smackdown, I dug around in the data, interviewed undecideds, and called up a passel of experts.
Undecided Voters Are a Menace
Michelle Cottle
September 22, 2012
Harold Ramis made a passel of great comedies, but he never made one better than Groundhog Day.
Harold Ramis’s ‘Groundhog Day’ Is About as Perfect as a Movie Gets
Malcolm Jones
February 24, 2014
After all, didn’t she figure out a way to “have it all”—a passel of children, a first dude, and a big job in the public sphere?
This Candidate Is Bad For Women
Linda Hirshman
June 8, 2010
Historical Examples
These June tenants was jist a passel of boys and I can tell you they pretty near ripped things wide open.
Vacation with the Tucker Twins
Nell Speed
Jest over the hill you’ll run into a passel of our fellers, but pay no ‘tention to ’em.
The Rock of Chickamauga
Joseph A. Altsheler
I never knowed what a fool I could be till I undertook the managing of a passel of crazy boys off on a lark.
Harper’s Round Table, October 15, 1895
Various
De folks was pow’ful nice to us an’ we raised a passel er chullun out dar.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
Work Projects Administration
They hung around her like a passel of gulls around a herring boat.
Cape Cod Stories
Joseph C. Lincoln
They was awake, all right, wonderin’ what in time an’ creation were turned loose on un, we yellin’ like a passel o’ Injuns.
The Gaunt Gray Wolf
Dillon Wallace
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Today’s quote
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
– Aristotle
On this day
7 March 1876 – Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
7 March 1958 – birth of Rik Mayall, British comedian and actor. Starred in The Young Ones, Bottom, Black Adder and Drop Dead Fred. Died 9 June 2014.
7 March 1988 – Cyclone Bola strikes Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne/East Cape region of north-eastern New Zealand. It is one of the costliest cyclones to hit N.Z. Three people were killed and thousands were evacuated.
7 March 1999 – death of Stanley Kubrick, legendary movie producer. Some of his movies include ‘2001 – A Space Odyssey’, ‘The Shining’, ‘A Clockwork Orange’, ‘Full Metal Jacket’ and ‘Eyes Wide Shut’. Born 26 July 1928.
7 March 2011 – Charlie Sheen fired from U.S. sitcom, ‘Two and a Half Men’ after allegations of drug abuse.