"umpteen" meaning in English

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Determiner

IPA: /ˈʌmp.tiːn/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-umpteen.wav
Rhymes: -iːn Etymology: From ump (“colloquial name for the dash "—" in Morse code”) + -teen. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|ump|teen|gloss1=colloquial name for the dash "—" in Morse code}} ump (“colloquial name for the dash "—" in Morse code”) + -teen Head templates: {{head|en|determiner|head=}} umpteen, {{en-det}} umpteen
  1. (informal, often slightly derogatory) Relatively large but unspecified in number. Wikipedia link: umpteen Tags: informal Synonyms: umpty-ump Derived forms: umpteenth Translations (Relatively large but unspecified in number): عشرميه (ʕošroméyya) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), безброй (bezbroj) (Bulgarian), spousty [feminine, plural] (Czech), moře [neuter] (Czech), halda [feminine] (Czech), hromada [feminine] (Czech), fůra [feminine] (Czech), hafo [neuter] (Czech), spousta [feminine] (Czech), tig (Dutch), toistakymmentä (english: between 11 and 19) (Finnish), trente-six (French), trente-six mille (French), trente-six-mille (French), zig (German), kismillió (Hungarian), egy rakás (Hungarian), csillió (Hungarian), dy liooar (Manx), tuauriuri (Maori), ørten (Norwegian), um bocado de (Portuguese), um monte de (Portuguese), inúmeros (Portuguese), enșpe (Romanian), бесчисленно (besčislenno) (Russian), una multitud de (Spanish), un montón de (Spanish), tropecientos [masculine, plural] (Spanish), femtioelva (Swedish)
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      "sense": "Relatively large but unspecified in number",
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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 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.