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umptiest

umptiest is the misconstruction of umpteenth.

Meaning of umpteenth

Adjective

umpteenth (not comparable)

  1. (informal, often slightly derogatory) Occurring in a relatively large but unspecified position in a sequence.
    • That's the umpteenth time I've had to tell him not to swear in front of the children.

Origin of umptiest

As though formed as an ordinal number from umpty + -est.

Questions about umptiest

What is umptiest the misconstruction of?
Umptiest is the misconstruction of umpteenth.

Words near umptiest in the dictionary

  1. umpteen
  2. umpteenth
  3. umptekite
  4. umptekites
  5. umptekitic
  6. umptiest
  7. umptieth
  8. umptillion
  9. umptillions
  10. umpty
  11. umpty-ump

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Adapted from Wiktionary: umptiest (page history and authors); umpteenth (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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