ABUNDANCE, ABUNDANT, ABUNDANTLY
also see EXCESS, PLENTY
ADJECTIVES
► ABOUND abundant, overflowing; plentiful → 1400 obs.
► ABOUNDABLE abundant, fully sufficient → 1400 obs.
► BALORE in abundance, galore → 1968 Amer. dial.
► BUMPER exceptionally abundant or large → 1836
► CORNUCOPIAN plentiful, overflowingly abundant; pert. to a cornucopia → 1609
► CROWNED abundant, bounteous → 1603
► DEGORE ► DELORE abundant, plentiful → 1965 Amer. dial.
► EXUBERATE superabundant, overflowing → 1638 obs.
► FAT abundant, plentiful → 1563
► FLIRCH abundant → 1889 Amer. dial.
► LARGE abundant, ample in quantity; copious → 1225 obs.
► MANYFULL abundant → 1440 obs.
► MICKLE ► MUCKLE abundant, much in quantity → 1737 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MUNIFICENT characterized by abundance; very generous; bountiful → 1565
► OPIME abundant, rich, sumptuous, splendid → 1533 obs.
► OPIMOUS abundant, rich, plentiful, sumptuous, splendid → 1656 obs.
► PLENTEVOUS abundant, plentiful, plenteous → 1738 obs.
► PLENTIFUL AS PIG-TRACKS abundant, very plentiful → 1870 Amer. dial.
► PURPLE characterized by richness or abundance; splendid, glorious; of emotion: deeply felt or extravagantly expressed → 1598
► RAFFIE ► RAFFY abundant, generous, plentiful, well-supplied → 1871 Sc.
► RANK abundant, copious → 1303 obs.
► RESTING in abundance, galore → 1970 Amer. dial.
► THICK AS PIG-TRACKS abundant, very plentiful → 1870 Amer. dial.
► THICK ON THE GROUND abundant, numerous, crowded → 1893 UK sl.
► TRABOCCANT superabundant; excessive, superfluous → 1651 obs.
► UBERANT abundant, copious → 1622 obs.
► UBEROUS abundant, copious, full → 1633
► UTA in abundance → 1986 US sl.
► WAGGA-WAGGA abundant, plentiful → 1990 W. Indies sl.
► WALLING abundant → 1400 obs.
ADVERBS
► AGLORE abundantly, aplenty, in abundance → 1967 Amer. dial.
► AGLORY abundantly, aplenty, in abundance → 1969 Amer. dial.
► ALL ENDS AND SIDES abundantly, in excess → 1866 Eng. dial.
► FATLY abundantly, plentifully → 1515 obs.
► GALLORUM ► GALOREM abundantly, in abundance → 1813 Sc. obs.
► LARGE abundantly, amply, fully, quite, by a great deal → 1300 obs., chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► LIKE STUPIDNESS abundantly, in great supply → 1950 W. Indies & Black British sl.
► LIKE WATER abundantly; freely → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► ABUNDANCY a being abundant; abundantness, plentifulness → 1620 obs.
► ABUNDATION abundance, plenty, a large quantity → 19C Eng. dial.
► AFFLUENTNESS abundance, profusion → 1727 obs.
► BOKOO an abundance of anything → 1915 World War I Amer. sl. (French ‘beaucoup’)
► BUMPER anything unusually abundant or large → 1859 sl.
► BUNDANCE an abundance → 1908 Amer. dial.
► COPIOSITY abundance, plentifulness → 1543 obs.
► DIGGLES abundance, plenty → 1892 Eng. dial.
► FAT superabundance, plenty → 1570 obs.
► FULSOMEHEAD abundance, plentifulness; satiety → 1325 obs.
► FULTH abundance, fullness; plenty → 1400
► GOD’S PLENTY an abundance → 1949 Amer. dial.
► GUSH an abundance; a large quantity → 1849 Amer. dial.
► LABIES abundance, plenty; a store → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LASHANGALLAIVIE abundance, profusion, esp. of good living → 1838 Sc.
► LASHINGS an abundance, a great plenty → 1894 Amer. dial.
► LAVISH excessive abundance, profusion, extravagant outpouring or expenditure → 1483 obs.
► LUSHINGS abundance → 1852
► MAIN’S MORE abundance, ever so much → 1822 Sc. obs.
► MORT an abundance; a large quantity or number → 1899 Amer. dial.
► MURTH ► MERTH abundance, plenty → 1674 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► OCEANS an abundance, a large amount or quantity; multitude, more than enough → L16
► OMBERTY ► UMBERTY abundance → 1575 obs.
► RAFF abundance, plenty → 1320 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► REMPTION ► RIMPTION an abundance; plenty; a large amount or number → 1913 Amer. dial.
► RIMPSHIONS an abundance; plenty; a large amount or number → 1917 Amer. dial.
► SCAFF AND RAFF abundance, plenty, esp. of food → 1806 Sc.
► SCOUTH ► SCOWTH abundance, plenty → 1804 Sc.
► SCOUTH AND ROUTH abundance, plenty → 1900 Sc.
► SLATHERS an abundance → 1926 US sl. (Bk.)
► SUFFISANCE abundance, ample means, wealth → 1390 obs.
► TALENT abundance, treasure, riches, wealth → 1400 obs.
► TALLOW abundance, plenty → 1380 obs.
► TEEM abundant supply; large quantity → 1876 Eng. dial.
► TRUNKFUL an abundant or full supply → 20C colloq.
► UBERTY abundance, profusion, esp. of good living → 1412
► WHIPS abundance, lots → 1888
PHRASES
► AT RACK AND MANGER in the midst of abundance or plenty, wanting for nothing → 1380
► COMING OUT OF ONE’S EARS in superabundant supply → 1965 Amer. sl.
► THERE’S CORN IN EGYPT there is abundance; there is a plentiful supply → 1838
► THICK AS FIDDLERS IN HELL said of a great abundance → 1919 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► TILL HECK WOULDN’T HAVE IT in abundance, aplenty, galore → 1967 Amer. dial.
► TILL HELL WOULDN’T HAVE IT in abundance, aplenty, galore → 1939 Amer. dial.
► TILL HELL WOULDN’T SNEEZE AT IT in abundance, aplenty, galore → 1935 Amer. dial.
VERBS
► COME LIKE SALT to be in great abundance → 2003 Trinidad and Tobago
► EXUBERATE to be in great abundance; to be plentiful; to abound; to overflow → 1623