umpteenth

[ uhmp-teenth ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Informal.

of an indefinitely large number in succession:
He was the umpteenth person to arrive.

First recorded in 1915–20; umpteen + -th ²

It would have been worse than Lucy yanking away that blasted football for the umpteenth time.

In the end, Jezebel took a stand against Vogue for the umpteenth time and spent $10,000 in the process.

While watching The Ten Commandments on TV with their children for the umpteenth time, Burnett and Downey had an epiphany.

The news is the umpteenth "‎breakthrough" in HIV in the 32 years of the epidemic.

The entire vaccine debate has been stirred up for the umpteenth time this week by our national influenza epidemic.

I have been reading "Pepys' Diary" for what Mrs. Darling would call the "umpteenth" time.

But I was being whisked up the elevator to the umpteenth floor before he had the chance.

For the umpteenth time, as Mr. Ellerton would say, that man doesn't care two-pence about me, Golden.

Or maybe I did when for the umpteenth time I suggested she should marry me.

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