| 释义 |
umpteen
noun
an imprecise, large number UK, 1918- That meant I wouldn’t be lying around in some hospital, like so many of them at umpteen bucks a day, while they slowly took out my neck. — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, pp. 66–67, 1949
- But now they’re married for umpteen years and real antiques[.] — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. 6, 1957
- I don’t rightly know but it must be a couple umpteen trillion sextillion[.] — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, p. 9, 1958
- What the hell is the point of slammin’ some poor little shmuck in the can for umpteen years when we allow the liquor industry carte blanche[?] — Odie Hawkins, Great Lawd Buddha, p. 93, 1990
|