Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang Spirited vigor: "There is not much oomph in the economy, but there is nothing seriously pushing it down” ( Murray L. Weidenbaum).
- n. Slang Physical or sexual attractiveness.
Wiktionary
- n. informal, uncountable Strength, power, passion or effectiveness; clout.
- n. informal, uncountable Sex appeal.
- n. countable A bassy grunting or thudding sound.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the activeness of an energetic personality
- n. attractiveness to the opposite sex
Etymologies
- Expressive of exertion. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This rustic white bean soup is stockless and gets its goodness and oomph from the beans 'own cooking liquid.”
The Huffington Post: Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution
“But it could gain oomph through its deal with Microsoft and Dell, which took shape last fall.”
“Adding a near term oomph to a degrading balance sheet?”
“Microsoft's presscon just wasn't as "oomph" - ish as it should have been.”
“Looking into the hopefully not too distant future, the Intel iBooks’ selling point is going to be the most reliable OS and UI with the most popular desktop, Windows (plus a little bit extra oomph from the CPU).”
“What I missed was what I can only describe as the oomph I had expected, the spectacular quality of the sheer mass of them, the "serried ranks" I mentioned above.”
“I supposed if you were a big fan of the movie Stargate it would be really neat to see the further adventures of O'Neill and company (sadly lacking any French Stewart, or is that happily?) but to me there wasn't really any 'oomph' to these episodes.”
“It does need a bit more "oomph" though - I added a touch of garlic powder, Tabasco and a little bit of honey to pump up the flavour, which worked nicely.”
“The scores to T and T2 have easily become my most listened to soundtracks these days, and can very well inspire "oomph" in whatever I'll be doing at the time.”
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“Good luck with the letter writing Sarah and I hope you get your 'oomph' back.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oomph’.
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A Sequel to 250 Spelling Words
Words to quiz the intermediate and advanced speller alike
amatorio, esemplastic, etesian, cholecystitis, chantepleure, paternoster, mondegreen, aporia, kairos, idioglossia, klepht, phansigar and 238 more...
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Goatboy's list
Goatboy's Word Emporium
juggernaut, abhor, discombobulate, fankle, oose, orchid, schadenfreude, doppleganger, garibaldi, coquette, arabesque, meme and 19 more...
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Energetic
braze, raze, brisance, brisant, rive, catalyze, whipsaw, crack, actinic, sublimate, animate, vitalize and 88 more...
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ɱ
with potential for the labiodental nasal
symphony, bamford, amphibians, chamfer, camphor, ham-fisted, amphetamine, bumf, triumphant, comfortable, amphipod, tomfoolery and 8 more...
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Yoinks, Zoinks, & Zounds!
A collection of interjections and verbal ejaculations.
yoinks, zoinks, zounds, crikey, lawsy, oomph, unf, shazbot, lordy, mox nix, cosmic, no dice and 30 more...
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Grunts, Sounds, Calls
Aah, achoo, ack, ah, aha, ahem, ah-ha, aw, baa, bah, blah, boo and 64 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, O
opacity, opaline, olfactory, orthoepy, orthoepy, oleaginous, obloquy, oasitic, obtrude, orthotic, overweening, ostinato and 125 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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schinders's Words
persiflage, preterition, quidnunc, finick, termagant, otiose, magniloquent, weltschmerz, schadenfreude, piehole, malevolent, susurrus and 132 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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conceptwriter's Words
sloth, jackass, dickhead, technostalgic, futuristic, enigma, impact, addict, nasty, premium, extraordinaire, yearning and 262 more...
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Favorite Five-Letter Words
Just what it sounds like. My favorites. Five letters.
ennui, barfy, samba, schwa, beefy, chunk, queef, spasm, skulk, bowel, elbow, fruit and 235 more...
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favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for oomph.
Prolagus Well, we're tagging them... Oct 14, 2008
bilby Has anyone compiled all the WeirdNet specials into a list yet? Oct 14, 2008
reesetee It is normal, isn't it? I think WeirdNet's slightly perverted. I like that in a dictionary. ;-) Dec 8, 2007
chained_bear Holy mackerel, WeirdNet's gone weird!! (Actually, for WeirdNet, it's quite normal.) Dec 8, 2007
sonofgroucho Your guess is as good as mine! Dec 6, 2007
reesetee Whaaaat? Where did that definition come from?? Dec 6, 2007