Crossword clues for umpteen
umpteen
- Very many
- Lots of
- Too many to count
- Outlandish number
- Ginormous number
- Scads of
- Untold number
- Number of trombones in an Urbie Green title
- Number of trombones in an Urbie Green album title
- Large, inexact number
- Innumerable, informally
- A whole bunch of
- A million jillion
- A jillion
- A great number of
- A considerable number
- More than many
- Myriad
- A zillion
- Many, many
- Quite a few in group of nations accepting military police support
- Countless piles of rubbish uncovered by youngster
- A great many put me out — active men, ultimately
- A lot of pressure: I'm not sure youngster will accept it
- Lots meet up after work close to tavern
- Loads of hesitation with parking by young person
- Large but indefinite number
- Indefinitely many
- In court, youngster takes in many at first — very many!
- A whole bunch
- Quite a few
- Ginormous amount
The Collaborative International Dictionary
umpteen \ump"teen\, a. An indefinite number, usu. more than ten and less than one hundred; a lot. Often used hyperbolically, and usually expressing the notion of more than the usual number or more than I would like. [Colloq.] ``I've told you umpteen times not to do that.''
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1917, World War I army slang, from umpty + -teen. Related: Umpteenth.
Wiktionary
det. (context informal often slightly derogatory English) Relatively large but unspecified in number.
WordNet
adj. innumerable but many [syn: umteen]
Usage examples of "umpteen".
Everything the Arisians had done for umpteen skillions of years had been aimed at the Eddorians.
Jimmy was doing in intensive care, and when Mrs Palissey came back I took Brian with me to the wholesalers, where he helped me shift umpteen cases from the stores onto trolleys, and from those trolleys to other trolleys at the pay desk, for rolling out to the van, and from the second trolleys into the van, and, back at the shop, from the van into the storeroom.
It was one of the sillier questions, almost as dumb as umpteen dimensions, and it tended to negate the effect of Nut's discourse on Dedekind and Riemann.
Why, oy, I reckon you would have to calculate the number of grains of sand on this beach and on every star in the sky, in every one of the ten thousand great chilicosms, which would be a number of sand grains uncomputable by IBM and Burroughs too, why boy I don't rightly know" (swig of wine) "I don't rightly know but it must be a couple umpteen trillion sextillion infideled and busted up innumerable number of roses that sweet Saint Teresa and that fine little old man are now this minute showering on your head, with lilies.