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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
umpty

1905, "of an indefinite number," originally Morse code slang for "dash," influenced by association with numerals such as twenty, thirty, etc.

Wiktionary
umpty

a. Being indefinite, unspecified

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Umpty

Umpty may refer to:

  • Umpty Candy, a confection in the Judge Dredd comics
  • The word from which the indefinite number umpteen is derived
  • A possible source of the Australian place name Humpty Doo

Usage examples of "umpty".

They will play tumpty umpty and toodle oodle, and they will dance and do a thousand tricks.

If we work to umpty decimal places, there are 10^umpty possibilities.