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oopsies

oopsies is the plural of oopsy.

oopsies is the plural of oopsie.

oopsies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of oopsy.

oopsies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of oopsie.

Meaning of oopsy

Noun

oopsy (plural oopsies)

  1. (childish, very colloquial) A mistake; often when babies and young children soil their pants.
    • I have made an oopsy.

See all 3 meanings of oopsy

Verb

  1. (colloquial) Oops.
    • Amber: Right! Oh, except three times eight is twenty-four, not twenty-seven. Me: Oh. Oopsies. (Erases answer) And now for this one . . . (scratches in answer)2008, Lauren Barnholdt, chapter 3, in Four Truths and a Lie, New York, N.Y.: Aladdin Mix, →ISBN, pages 63–64
    • Kris threw the gear shift into park. “Back at the van at 5:15 p.m.” / “You know you told Bree it was 6:30, right, Coach?” Ashley said. / “Oh, oopsies . . . let’s make it 6:15 still. Ashley, can you text Bree?[…]”2013 February 20, Greg Kleiner, Georgie Mills, chapter 4, in Strings, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 51

Origin of oopsies

From oopsie /oopsy (noun) + -s (plural suffix).

From oopsie /oopsy (verb) + -s (third-person singular suffix).

From oops + -ies.

Questions about oopsies

What does oopsies mean?
Oopsies means oops.
What is oopsies the plural of?
Oopsies is the plural of oopsy.
What part of speech is oopsies?
Oopsies is a verb.

Words near oopsies in the dictionary

  1. oopses
  2. oopsie
  3. oopsie-daisy
  4. oopsied
  5. oopsieing
  6. oopsies
  7. oopsing
  8. OOPSLA
  9. oopsortunities
  10. oopsortunity
  11. oopsy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oopsies (page history and authors); oopsy (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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