umptiest
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]As though formed as an ordinal number from umpty + -est.
Adjective
[edit]umptiest (not comparable)
- (rare) Misconstruction of umpteenth
- 1971, The Daily Review, volume 17:
- These days, Senator Henry Jackson, notorious for his ties with the Pentagon, has "distinguished" himself in this unseemly field for the umptiest time.
- 2006, Council for Social and Economic Studies (U.S.), The Mankind Quarterly (volume 47, page 62)
- This is in reality the umptiest variant of the Hobbes-Rousseau controversy […]