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"text": "Oops! I left the lid off the ketchup.",
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},
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"ref": "2000, Max Martin, Rami Yacoub (lyrics and music), “Oops!… I Did It Again”, in Oops!… I Did It Again, performed by Britney Spears",
"text": "Oops, I did it again / I played with your heart, got lost in the game",
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"Acknowledging a mistake."
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"(colloquial) Acknowledging a mistake."
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"word": "oopsy"
},
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"word": "uh-oh"
},
{
"word": "whoops"
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"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʔāhin",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "آهٍ"
},
{
"code": "br",
"lang": "Breton",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "chaous"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "vaja"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "āiyā, āiyá",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "哎呀"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "āhā",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "啊哈"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "jejda"
},
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ups"
},
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "hovsa"
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"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "amaai"
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"word": "ups"
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
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"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ups"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
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"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
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"code": "fi",
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "oups"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "houp!"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ui",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "უი"
},
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "vai",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ვაი"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ups",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "უფს"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ups"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "huch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "hoppla"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "oups",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ουπς"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "ups",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "אוּפְּס"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "hoppá"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "hopp"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ajjaj"
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{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "úps"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "æ"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "obbosí"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ups"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "hoips"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "úps"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ups"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ops"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "otto",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "おっと"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shimatta",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "しまった"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ara",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "あら"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "oya",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "おや"
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{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "arara",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "あらら"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "acha",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "아차"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "oop"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "yíh"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "wah"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "waháá"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "oj"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ups"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "opa"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ops"
},
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ups"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "ox",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ох"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ups"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "jao"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"note": "from English \"shit\"",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "šit"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ajoj"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "joj"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ops"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ups"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "hoppsan"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "oj"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "acknowledging a minor mistake",
"word": "ay"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake",
"word": "oeps"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake",
"word": "oei"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake",
"word": "ups"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake",
"word": "oho"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake",
"word": "hoppáka"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "otto",
"sense": "used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake",
"word": "おっと"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ara",
"sense": "used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake",
"word": "あら"
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"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake",
"word": "oop"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake",
"word": "oj"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake",
"word": "ups"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oj",
"sense": "used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake",
"word": "ой"
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"code": "es",
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"word": "oh oh"
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"ref": "2015, Dawn Klehr, If You Wrong Us",
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"word": "უფს"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.