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noun
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
batch
deal
flock
good deal
great deal
hatful
heap
lot
mass
mess
mickle
mint
mountain
muckle
passel
peck
pile
plenty
pot
quite a little
raft
sight
slew
spate
stack
tidy sum
wad
a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
peck
a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
peck
verb
hit lightly with a picking motion
peck
pick
beak
bother persistently with trivial complaints
"She nags her husband all day long"
nag
peck
hen-peck
eat by pecking at, like a bird
peck
pick up
eat like a bird
"The anorexic girl just picks at her food"
pick at
peck at
peck
kiss lightly
smack
peck
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