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umpteen
Umpteen (det) means Large in number but not stated exactly.
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Large in number but not stated exactly.
"She's taking umpteen friends with her to the party."
"Make sure your music software is stand-alone, too (ie, it doesn’t have to be loaded into a utility—we don’t want to have to mess around with bits of wire or umpteen different programs just to hear your maestropiece)."
— , Become a famous composer and appear in ZZAP! (1986)
"We still claim a population of over 300,000 based on the new city directory, and that chief of the census who threw out umpteen thousand names on us this spring can’t put his name on our slipboard any more."
— O.E. Shannon, edited by J.W. Hays (1911)
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Etymology
Formed from ump (a colloquial name for the dash "—" in Morse code) and -teen. It is unrelated to ump as in umpire, and is simply a mnemonic rhyming aid.
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What is the meaning of umpteen?
"umpteen" (det) means large in number but not stated exactly.
What is the opposite of umpteen?
The opposite of "umpteen" is few.
