It is a non-specific number, usually indicating someone has asked you to do something many times or has explained something many times. It usually is a sign of mild frustration.
This is your umpteenth request for a word to be used in a sentence.
This must be the umpteenth time this word has been spelt incorrectly.
There aren't any because umpteenth million isn't a REAL number it's just a way of exaggerating for effect like I DIED of embarrassment. He's older than dirt. I'll KILL her if she tells!
A degree is a level; it derives from the Latin word for a step. Umpteen is one of a number of number-words which do not mean a particular number, but mean "a lot". Another similar word is gazillion. But whereas gazillion implies that there are so many you cannot count them, umpteen suggests that there are a lot, but they are countable (they are in the range between ten and twenty).
Wayne Mitchell has written: 'Jolly Roger' 'The Umpteenth International Scarecrow Convention' 'The Naesseby Family Archive'
Approximately, but not definitely, 25 or so... It means the person is tired of counting how many times something has occurred. For example the phrase, "I've told you for the umpteenth time to stop whining about all the homework you get." The person means (emphatically) that they do NOT wish to repeat their effort.
It is a Laser beam from laser pointer. It is the light that bursts forth when, after the umpteenth repetition, comprehension dawns, illuminating every stubborn cognitive shadow, and dispersing the gray clouds of mental vacuum.
I 'pants'd' my brother once. After hearing my mother say for the umpteenth time "pull your pants up" I walked up behind him and grabbing both sides of his jeans near his hips, I quickly yanked downwards. It probably helped that we were in the frozen foods section of the grocery store, and he was standing next to an woman. From then on, he has worn a belt.
Dorothy was born in Cairo Egypt in the umpteenth century. Her father was an archeologist who traveled the world and her mother was a celtic expert. Dorothy rarely saw her parents due to their career lifestyles but her mother insisted that she homeschool dorothy and her sisters. But later in life dorothy took up her secondary education in a different school in england.
Dorothy was born in Cairo Egypt in the umpteenth century. Her father was an archeologist who traveled the world and her mother was a celtic expert. Dorothy rarely saw her parents due to their career lifestyles but her mother insisted that she homeschool dorothy and her sisters. But later in life dorothy took up her secondary education in a different school in england.
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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern UMP------. That is, nine letter words with 1st letter U and 2nd letter M and 3rd letter P. In alphabetical order, they are: umpirages umpteenth