umpty
- adjective
- /ˈʌmpti/
- Informal
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- Every time I ask him, he gives me umpty excuses for being late.
Examples
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She has read umpty books this summer and still wants more recommendations.
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Then, in an ever-spiraling Babelesque explosion of code, the world got umpty-ump different Linux distributions, some of which seem to differ from each other only in the color of their desktop screens.
Blog text (2) -
Or, as he peevishly reminded me, twenty-eight days, seven hours, and umpty-ump minutes.
Fiction book (1999) -
If readers and authors are going to suffer, they will suffer exactly the same things they've suffered from every corporate merger in the publishing business for the last umpty-ump years.
Blog text (18) -
I've been to umpty different cafes around the city, each with its own unique charm.
Synonyms
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A large, not exact number when the exact amount is not important
A very large number people say when they do not know the exact amount
Antonyms
How Many
Surface Forms
Etymology
Umpty is a playful word that probably began with telegraph operators as a name for a long signal and later became like umpteen to mean 'many' or 'lots'. So, when you say something happened umpty times, you mean a large, vague number.