millyumadj.n.
/ˈmɪlɪəm/, /ˈmɪljəm/, U.S. /ˈmɪliəm/, /ˈmɪljəm/ colloquial. rare.
= million adj. and n. (Only in the works of Ezra Pound.)
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millyum1940
1940 E. Pound Cantos LII–LXXI liv. 40 Jobs for two millyum men.
1940 E. Pound Cantos LII–LXXI lvi. 58 Thus saved several millyum lives of those chinamen.
1955 E. Pound Section: Rock-drill lxxxix. 53 And in '34 presumably will be 2 millyum.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1940- a piece of homework
- a piece of motley
- a piece of rough
- a piece of tail
- a piece of the action
- a piece of wood
- a pieces
- a pig of a
- a pig of a person's sow
- a pin's head
- a pin's point
- a pinch of conscience
- a pisspot full of
- a place for everything and everything in its place
- a plague on
- a plague take
- a plain tea
- a play on words
- a play upon words
- a play within a play
- a play within the play
- a plume of feathers
- a plymouth cloak
- a pocketful of rocks
- a point