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oompahing

oompahing is the present participle and gerund of oompah.

Meaning of oompah

Verb

oompah (third-person singular simple present oompahs, present participle oompahing, simple past and past participle oompahed)

  1. (transitive) To produce an oom-pah sound.
    • ...the house filled with the sounds of Mario Lanza, or oompahing tubas […]2005, Jeannette Walls, The glass castle

Questions about oompahing

What is oompahing the present participle and gerund of?
Oompahing is the present participle and gerund of oompah.

Words near oompahing in the dictionary

  1. Oompa Loompa
  2. Oompa Loompas
  3. oompah
  4. oompah-like
  5. oompahed
  6. oompahing
  7. oompahpah
  8. oompahs
  9. oompapa
  10. oompf
  11. oomph

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oompahing (page history and authors); oompah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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