half a dozen
English
Numeral
half a dozen
- Six (6); often used approximatively.
- 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:
- Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
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Synonyms
- half dozen
Derived terms
- six of one, half a dozen of the other
Translations
six
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