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Feb. 21, 2016
passel\PAS-uh l\noun
1. a group or lot of indeterminate number: a passel of dignitaries.
QuotesIf you had a passel of kids, then you'd always have a troop to
boss when you felt like bossing. It would occupy your brain and you
wouldn't get gloomy as often.
-- Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove, 1985OriginPassel is an alteration of
the word parcel meaning "a quantity or unit of something." It entered
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