umpty-umpth
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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There are, perhaps forgivably, some dancers who eventually come to view the show about as charitably as a harpsichordist girding for his umpty-umpth Messiah.
From Time Magazine Archive
Currently on a three-month U.S. tour, he is now two-thirds through his umpty-umpth cycle of the 32 Beethoven sonatas at Manhattan's Tully Hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn’t fair.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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