Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Being indefinite, unspecified
Examples
“Surely the relatively poor sales of One Piece this market is already maxed out by umpty-seven volumes of Naruto?”
“Coming in November, the latest original anthology from me and my sometime-partner, Gardner Dozois (former editor of ASIMOV's and winner of umpty-ump Hugo Awards as our field's best editor): SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH.”
“I actually commented to my husband as we watched the guy patiently go back to the lake umpty-ump times for water "the only difference between now and a hundred years ago is that in the old days it probably would have been a burro going back and forth to the lake bringing water to put the fire out"!”
“Example: Say ump hundred, umpty-ump, umpteen or ump years ago, non-central character X unleashes the Dark Lord or steals the MacGuffin Device, only to be Horribly Killed immediately for their Terrible Folly, leaving aforesaid Dark Lord/MacGuffin Device loose in the world to create merry havoc.”
“And $umpty-million in ads (and also the MSM) will be saying that all fall.”
“Coming in November, the latest original anthology from me and my sometime-partner, Gardner Dozois former editor of ASIMOV's and winner of umpty-ump Hugo Awards as our field's best editor: SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH.”
“They were most chagrined when the umpty-zillion dollar sniffer promptly failed to detect anything.”
“Reason number umpty-um that I'll be glad when 11/5 rolls around”
“So, unlike, say, baby's first year, which is documented in umpty bazillion articles, books, and websites, a stepparent is often left to puzzle out challenges and changes using intuition and best-guesses.”
The Huffington Post: Lily Burana: Adding a Baby To Our Blended Family
“Like umpty-dump million other people, I'm on Facebook.”
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Cryptography, etc.
Codes, ciphers, and other words related to secret ways of communicating. See also Keeping Secrets, a list by oroboros.
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actung Originally Morse code slang for 'dash.' Online Etymology Dictionary May 14, 2012