umpteen adj.
an unspecified large number or amount, usu. used attrib.
![]() | Christchurch Press 14 Sept. 5: This must be good news for the Jap. paper men, for assuming they are like you and me, and never trot around with a credit balance of more than about umteen [sic] pence, they can sling the ink of libel [...] with a sweet freedom. | |
![]() | Northwestern Miller (Minneapolis, MN) 21 July 44: In regard to crop prospects in this section, wheat is same as ever, thanks. [...] Probable yields sufficient to ‘yank the bun’. Increase acreage ‘umpteen’’ per cent. | |
![]() | Anzac Book 135/2: And they counted and they found umpteen million men of valour, two ships, [...] umpteen billion rolls of paper money and ennygottsquantitee gas. | |
![]() | Boys’ Realm 16 Jan. 265: He ran umpteen rings round them, tricked them. | |
![]() | Billy Bennett’s Third Budget 29: They were married in umpteen what-not 2. | ‘The Street of a Thousand Lanterns’ in|
![]() | Mistral Hotel (1951) 173: Umpteen million tons of nickel is goin’ to get blown to hell. | |
![]() | Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 258: Duddy could see his face so clearly and he could remember him from [...] umpteen other movies. | |
![]() | Apprentices (1970) I iii: How many times have I told you to keep clear of that wall? It’s a dangerous wall, and I’ve told you and told you umpteen times. | |
![]() | Start in Life (1979) 28: Walking umpteen miles a week. | |
![]() | Indep. Rev. 10 July 8: Author and editor of umpteen books, editions, and reference books. | |
![]() | Be My Enemy 127: Max recounted umpteen such bafflingly nebulous posts. | |
![]() | Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Charles shells out to anyone who comes along. [...] Bailed out the footy club umpteen times. | |
![]() | Broken 186: Every Thursday for the past umpteen years has been poker night. | ‘Sunset’ in
In derivatives
the ordinal created from the sl. numeral umpteen.
![]() | High Adventure 145: On the umteenth day of June, the escadrilles of Groupe de Combat Blank [that’s ours] will coöperate in an attack on the German observation balloons . | |
![]() | Hell Hounds of France 243: [A] letter from McCann, inviting me for the umpteenth time to join him in South America . | |
![]() | On Broadway Sept. n.d. [synd. col.] Eric Zardo [...] and his wife [...] have parted for the umpteenth time. | |
![]() | AS XXIV:3 229: umpteenth. ‘For the umpteenth time — the object of a college or university training is to stimulate independent thinking.’. | ‘Miscellany: Indefinite Numbering’ in|
![]() | Proud Highway (1997) 158: He has ‘gone down’ again for the umpteenth time. | letter 3 Mar. in|
![]() | Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 32: The Thursday – as she was showing her umpteenth light ale the way home – in he came! | |
![]() | Skin Tight 219: He readjusted his shoulder holster for the umpteenth time. | |
![]() | Inside 41: The umpteenth look at the cheap watch I had bought specially for prison. | |
![]() | Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Umpteenth time he’s done me. | |
![]() | Indep. Rev. 17 Jan. 18: The ditzy blonde provided the punchline that underlined, for the umpteenth time, her utter stupidity. |