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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-361/
- Published: 2025-08-04T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-04T18:14:59.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

passel (noun):

: a large number or amount

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passel?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Loss of the sound of "r" after a vowel and before a consonant in the middle of a word is common in spoken English. This linguistic idiosyncrasy has given the language a few new words, including cuss from curse, bust from burst, and passel from parcel.

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