A Bazillion Imaginary Numbers

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Thanks, Valse. I like "gobs" too, although it always puts me in mind of a gluelike substance. :-)

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.

It's from a Dilbert comic strip, although I don't remember seeing/reading it. I read about the word elsewhere.

Is "frooglepoopillion" just a made-up or have you heard it used or used it yourself?

That's the way I've always understood it too, jennarenn. Seanahan, have you heard this used to mean "zillions" or such?

I think of zounds as an exclaimation, not as an adjective.

As long as you are including words which don't have illion in them, how about zounds.

Haha! Excellent story! As for umpty-umpth, that's how I first heard that word myself.

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.

You're right. So I shall pick and choose as I see fit.

Because I said so, that's why. ;-)

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.

Hmm...think it sounds slang-y enough?

plethora?

Heehee. Thanks, all.

Indeed, you've got a boatload of them. Piles of words. Bordering on, perhaps, infinity minus one.

What a lovely slew of words!

And welcome to it!

Ooo! I love scads! Stolen. :)