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Etymology

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As though formed as an ordinal number from umpty + -est.

Adjective

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umptiest (not comparable)

  1. (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 []