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prettygoodwordpassel (PAS-uhl) - n., an indeterminate large quantity or group.
Having been raised on the comic strip Pogo, my association with the word is such phrases as "a passel of baby spiders" -- and believe me, that's a very large and indeterminate group. This is an alteration of parcel dating from around 1830 -- a mid-word "r" that's after a vowel and before a consonant often gets lost in spoken English, such as cuss from curse and bust from burst.
---L.
Having been raised on the comic strip Pogo, my association with the word is such phrases as "a passel of baby spiders" -- and believe me, that's a very large and indeterminate group. This is an alteration of parcel dating from around 1830 -- a mid-word "r" that's after a vowel and before a consonant often gets lost in spoken English, such as cuss from curse and bust from burst.
---L.
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