Eleventy
Origin
From Old English hundendleftig (also spelled hund-endleofantig, hund-endlyftig, and hund-ælleftig). Popularized in the 20th century by JRR Tolkien's trilogy.
Cardinal numeral
eleventy- (humorous) The number 110, 11 × 10.Compounds with other numerals: eleventy-one (= 111), eleventy-six (= 116), eleventy-first (= one-hundred and eleventh), etc.1955 (1974), JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday
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“Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today!â€1980, Janet Caudle, State and Interstate Fishery Jurisdiction: Problems and Progress : Proceedings of a Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1979 : October 29-31, 1979, without having to go back through the thousand and eleventy-three days to alter the plan 2007, Doug Lowe, Networking for Dummies, Eight-Oh-Two-Dot-Eleventy Something 802.11a, 802.11b, etc. - (colloquial) An indefinite large number.May 1921, Margaret Wilson, The Atlantic Monthly Chapter A Little Boy's Utopia, No grown-up people, no babies, no girls. It was a world of boys, eleventy and a hundred strong. 2005, Robert M Sapolsky, Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals, People used to think that the first eleventy letters of the DNA message would comprise Gene 1.
- 2012-07-03, Marina Hyde, A lesson in Olymp-o-nomics, According to a study by me, this generates a multibillion facepalm for the UK economy, making everyone who considers it at least eleventy hundred pounds unhappier.