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Grammar : Noun
Spell : pas-uh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpæs əl



Definition of passel

Origin :
  • 1835, dialectal variant of parcel (n.).
  • noun heap
Example sentences :
  • Jest over the hill you'll run into a passel of our fellers, but pay no 'tention to 'em.
  • Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • They hung around her like a passel of gulls around a herring boat.
  • Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • You take a passel of college fellers, like you want to hire for waiters.
  • Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • It makes me laugh now t' think how that passel o' Injuns stared!
  • Extract from : « The Gaunt Gray Wolf » by Dillon Wallace
  • His glance slid past Nicole and Frank and their passel of kids.
  • Extract from : « Shaman » by Robert Shea
  • They only seeks ter beguile us with a passel of fair-seemin' lies.
  • Extract from : « The Roof Tree » by Charles Neville Buck
  • He'll be taller'n a house, the Old Nick himself with a passel of demons.
  • Extract from : « Wilderness of Spring » by Edgar Pangborn
  • Them pi-rats, proceeded Kuk, fought like a passel of catstooth an nail!
  • Extract from : « The Corner House Girls Under Canvas » by Grace Brooks Hill
  • I've got a passel of work to do there, with the weather coming on the way it is.
  • Extract from : « The Moving Picture Girls » by Laura Lee Hope
  • Dey went an' turned us loose, jus' lak a passel o' cattle, an' didn' show us nothin' or giv' us nothin'.
  • Extract from : « Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves » by Work Projects Administration

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