A list of 44 words by reesetee.
- bazillion appears on 3 other lists
- gazillion appears on 15 other lists
- umpteen appears on 19 other lists
- zillion appears on 7 other lists
- bajillion appears on 2 other lists
- skillion appears on 3 other lists
- kajillion appears on 2 other lists
- godzillion appears on just this list
- umptillion appears on 1 other list
- scads appears on 12 other lists
- gangs appears on 2 other lists
- buhmillion appears on just this list
- eleventy-seven appears on 2 other lists
- jillion appears on 3 other lists
- frooglepoopillion appears on just this list
- squillion appears on 4 other lists
- oodles appears on 26 other lists
- gobs appears on 1 other list
- mess appears on 15 other lists
- passel appears on 29 other lists
- rafts appears on 2 other lists
- heaps appears on 1 other list
- ananillion appears on just this list
- fantillion appears on just this list
- umpty-ump appears on 1 other list
- loads appears on 2 other lists
- slew appears on 32 other lists
- boatload appears on 4 other lists
- piles appears on 6 other lists
- infinity minus one appears on just this list
- wad appears on 24 other lists
- mother lode appears on 4 other lists
- buckets appears on 2 other lists
- truckload appears on 1 other list
- schnillion appears on 1 other list
- some-odd appears on just this list
- brazillion appears on 4 other lists
- frillion appears on just this list
- gajillion appears on 1 other list
- robillion appears on just this list
- kabillion appears on just this list
- droves appears on just this list
- plethora appears on 358 other lists
- fantastiliardo appears on 1 other list
marky could you open this list reesetee? Mar 27, 2013
reesetee Ha! Never knew that, Pro. Thanks for the suggestion! Jun 15, 2010
Prolagus In Italy, fantastiliardo is commonly used and featured in dictionaries. The interesting part is that the word was created in the 1960's by Italian Disney comic strip artist Gian Giacomo Dalmasso as the order of magnitude of Scrooge McDuck's wealth (30 fantastiliardi = $3*10^81). Jun 5, 2010
hernesheir googol, coined by Milton Sirotta, no stranger to mathematics or mathematicians. Jun 1, 2010
hernesheir Dont forget forty-leven. Jun 1, 2010
yarb Less than a metric fuckton: a metric ass-load or metric ass-ton. Jun 1, 2010
plethora Metric fuckton. Jun 1, 2010
bilby It's local, so I don't seriously propose it for this list, but in Aboriginal English big mobs is quite common. Many Aboriginal languages don't have an elaborate counting system. One, two, many. Big mobs is possibly a calque from one of these languages. Jun 1, 2010
reesetee Haha! Thanks, ptero! Jun 1, 2010
pterodactyl Today's Savage Chickens cartoon provides a useful illustration for this list, and suggests some new additions (droves, smattering, modicum...). Jun 1, 2010
Prolagus Could you adopt orphaned thirty-twelve? Oct 20, 2009
fbharjo How about nillion? Jul 26, 2009
PossibleUnderscore How about nth? Jul 23, 2009
reesetee Thanks, Valse. I like "gobs" too, although it always puts me in mind of a gluelike substance. :-) Aug 22, 2007
valse Wonderful list. I'm not sure why, but I like the expression "gobs of money." Perhaps it's the imagery, like with "wads" or "scads," which are are also probably most often used with money--as people are wont to daydream about such intangible desirable things.
...not to mention when it becomes tangible and the same words apply, heh..albeit less effectively, in my mind. Aug 13, 2007
reesetee It's from a Dilbert comic strip, although I don't remember seeing/reading it. I read about the word elsewhere. Aug 10, 2007
oroboros Is "frooglepoopillion" just a made-up or have you heard it used or used it yourself? Aug 10, 2007
reesetee That's the way I've always understood it too, jennarenn. Seanahan, have you heard this used to mean "zillions" or such? Aug 10, 2007
jennarenn I think of zounds as an exclaimation, not as an adjective. Aug 10, 2007
seanahan As long as you are including words which don't have illion in them, how about zounds. Aug 10, 2007
reesetee Haha! Excellent story! As for umpty-umpth, that's how I first heard that word myself. Aug 9, 2007
slumry This is a great list, and enlightening. I am going to add umpty-umpth to my words, because I particulary like it as an ordinal.
I like infinity minus one a lot too, U. It reminds me of the old joke about the natural history museum docent. Asked how old a particular fossil was, he said "Two million and twenty one years." As explanation for such a precise number, he explained that when he started working there 21 years ago, it was two million years old.
Aug 9, 2007
reesetee You're right. So I shall pick and choose as I see fit.
Because I said so, that's why. ;-) Aug 9, 2007
uselessness Actually, there's a wad of variants on the load theme... boatload, crapload, truckload, mother lode, buttload. There are probably buckets more that I can't remember at the moment. Tons more, even. Aug 9, 2007
reesetee Hmm...think it sounds slang-y enough? Aug 9, 2007
trivet plethora? Aug 9, 2007
reesetee Heehee. Thanks, all. Aug 9, 2007
uselessness Indeed, you've got a boatload of them. Piles of words. Bordering on, perhaps, infinity minus one. Aug 9, 2007
trivet What a lovely slew of words! Aug 9, 2007
reesetee And welcome to it! Aug 9, 2007
jennarenn Ooo! I love scads! Stolen. :) Aug 9, 2007