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Im OED-Eintrag steht folgendes:
" b. pl. in same sense. Cf. the like use of ‘lots’.
a1547 SURREY Poems, Compl. Lover, What pleasant life, what heapes of ioy these litle birdes receue. 1622 SPARROW Bk. Com. Prayer (1661) 170 For the antiquity of this Feast, heaps of Testimonies might be brought. 1856 G. J. WHYTE-MELVILLE Kate Cov. i, We're in heaps of time. 1872 BLACK Adv. Phaeton iii. 25 He has..knocked heaps of things to smithereens.
c. absol. and as adv. A great deal, much; a ‘lot’. (sing. and pl.) colloq.
a1834 DOW Serm. (Bartlett), To go to church in New York in any kind of tolerable style costs a heap a-year. 1848 G. F. RUXTON Life in Far West 223 (Farmer) He pronounced himself a heap better. 1852 MRS. STOWE Uncle Tom's C. x. 80 It's nature I should think a heap of him. 1871 W. ALEXANDER Johnny Gibb viii. (1873) 46 ‘Aw wudna care a great heap, gin we can 'gree aboot the waages.’ 1887 MRS. H. MARTIN Amor Vincit I. 5 You will find some one somewhere you think heaps better than me." |
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