lots

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

(LOT)


A quantity; a large number. A familiar expression common to England and America, but not in the dictionaries. Thus we hear it said, 'There was a lot of people at the mass-meeting to-day;' 'We shall have lots of folks at our house to-night," etc.

I showed my trunk to Patrick and then went and got into the omnibus, what took me, with a whole lot of other passengers, to the Charleston Hotel.--Maj. Jones's Travels.

My wife at home will warm us up

Some broth of well picked bones for sup;

There's lots of welcome in my house, &c.--Reynard the Fox, p. 46.

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