A list of 44 words by reesetee.
- fantastiliardowas added by reesetee and appears on 2 lists
- plethorawas added by reesetee and appears on 416 lists
- droveswas added by reesetee and appears on 7 lists
- kabillionwas added by reesetee and appears on just this list
- robillionwas added by reesetee and appears on just this list
- gajillionwas added by reesetee and appears on 8 lists
- frillionwas added by reesetee and appears on 2 lists
- brazillionwas added by reesetee and appears on 5 lists
- some-oddwas added by reesetee and appears on just this list
- schnillionwas added by reesetee and appears on 2 lists
- truckloadwas added by reesetee and appears on 4 lists
- bucketswas added by reesetee and appears on 9 lists
- mother lodewas added by reesetee and appears on 6 lists
- wadwas added by reesetee and appears on 30 lists
- infinity minus onewas added by reesetee and appears on just this list
- pileswas added by reesetee and appears on 8 lists
- boatloadwas added by reesetee and appears on 7 lists
- slewwas added by reesetee and appears on 57 lists
- loadswas added by reesetee and appears on 7 lists
- umpty-umpwas added by reesetee and appears on 2 lists
- fantillionwas added by reesetee and appears on just this list
- ananillionwas added by reesetee and appears on just this list
- heapswas added by reesetee and appears on 11 lists
- raftswas added by reesetee and appears on 3 lists
- passelwas added by reesetee and appears on 44 lists
- messwas added by reesetee and appears on 34 lists
- gobswas added by reesetee and appears on 5 lists
- oodleswas added by reesetee and appears on 31 lists
- squillionwas added by reesetee and appears on 8 lists
- frooglepoopillionwas added by reesetee and appears on just this list
- jillionwas added by reesetee and appears on 6 lists
- eleventy-sevenwas added by reesetee and appears on 3 lists
- buhmillionwas added by reesetee and appears on just this list
- gangswas added by reesetee and appears on 7 lists
- scadswas added by reesetee and appears on 15 lists
- umptillionwas added by reesetee and appears on 2 lists
- godzillionwas added by reesetee and appears on just this list
- kajillionwas added by reesetee and appears on 5 lists
- skillionwas added by reesetee and appears on 6 lists
- bajillionwas added by reesetee and appears on 6 lists
- zillionwas added by reesetee and appears on 14 lists
- umpteenwas added by reesetee and appears on 26 lists
- gazillionwas added by reesetee and appears on 19 lists
- bazillionwas added by reesetee and appears on 7 lists
jennarenn commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
Ooo! I love scads! Stolen. :)
August 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
And welcome to it!
August 9, 2007
trivet commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
What a lovely slew of words!
August 9, 2007
uselessness commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
Indeed, you've got a boatload of them. Piles of words. Bordering on, perhaps, infinity minus one.
August 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
Heehee. Thanks, all.
August 9, 2007
trivet commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
plethora?
August 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
Hmm...think it sounds slang-y enough?
August 9, 2007
uselessness commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
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.
August 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
You're right. So I shall pick and choose as I see fit.
Because I said so, that's why. ;-)
August 9, 2007
slumry commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
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.
August 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
Haha! Excellent story! As for umpty-umpth, that's how I first heard that word myself.
August 9, 2007
seanahan commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
As long as you are including words which don't have illion in them, how about zounds.
August 10, 2007
jennarenn commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
I think of zounds as an exclaimation, not as an adjective.
August 10, 2007
reesetee commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
That's the way I've always understood it too, jennarenn. Seanahan, have you heard this used to mean "zillions" or such?
August 10, 2007
oroboros commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
Is "frooglepoopillion" just a made-up or have you heard it used or used it yourself?
August 10, 2007
reesetee commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
It's from a Dilbert comic strip, although I don't remember seeing/reading it. I read about the word elsewhere.
August 10, 2007
valse commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
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.
August 14, 2007
reesetee commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
Thanks, Valse. I like "gobs" too, although it always puts me in mind of a gluelike substance. :-)
August 22, 2007
PossibleUnderscore commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
How about nth?
July 23, 2009
fbharjo commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
How about nillion?
July 26, 2009
Prolagus commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
Could you adopt orphaned thirty-twelve?
October 21, 2009
pterodactyl commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
Today's Savage Chickens cartoon provides a useful illustration for this list, and suggests some new additions (droves, smattering, modicum...).
June 1, 2010
reesetee commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
Haha! Thanks, ptero!
June 1, 2010
bilby commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
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.
June 1, 2010
plethora commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
Metric fuckton.
June 1, 2010
yarb commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
Less than a metric fuckton: a metric ass-load or metric ass-ton.
June 1, 2010
hernesheir commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
Dont forget forty-leven.
June 2, 2010
hernesheir commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
googol, coined by Milton Sirotta, no stranger to mathematics or mathematicians.
June 2, 2010
Prolagus commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
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).
June 5, 2010
reesetee commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
Ha! Never knew that, Pro. Thanks for the suggestion!
June 15, 2010
marky commented on the list a-bazillion-imaginary-numbers
could you open this list reesetee?
March 27, 2013