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umph

umph is the alternative form of humph.

umph is the alternative form of oof.

Meaning of humph

Interjection

  1. (onomatopoeic) A sound, usually made with a closed mouth pouting, indicating annoyance, indignation, disapproval, doubt, or sighing.
    • `Beauty is too rare upon it. Give me no thanks, who am made happy by thy coming.' `Humph! old fellow,' said Leo aside to me in English, `the lady is very civil.'1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    humbug

See all 3 meanings of humph

Meaning of oof

Interjection

  1. (onomatopoeic) A sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck.
    • Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, Australia Captial Territory, page 10, column 2
  2. (slang) Synonym of ouch (“expressing sympathy at another's pain, shock at a high price, etc.”).
    • "Oof, you just lost a lot of progress. That's a real frustration, a real punch in the gut."2017, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
    Synonyms:
    ouch

See all 5 meanings of oof

Origin of umph

Imitative.

Questions about umph

What is umph the alternative form of?
Umph is the alternative form of humph.

Words near umph in the dictionary

  1. umounting
  2. umounts
  3. ump
  4. umpan
  5. umped
  6. umph
  7. Umphress
  8. Umphresses
  9. Umphrey
  10. Umphreys
  11. umpie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: umph (page history and authors); humph (page history and authors); oof (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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