Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Oomph

Definitions: Oomph

Oomph

Noun

1. Attractiveness to the opposite sex.

2. A activeness of an energetic personality.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Oomph

Synonyms: desirability (n), desirableness (n), dynamism (n), pizzaz (n), pizzazz (n), sex appeal (n), zing (n). (additional references)

Top     

Modern Usage: Oomph

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Enough concentrated oomph for a whole carload of Hollywood starlets. (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Commercial Usage: Oomph

DomainTitle

Books

  • Oomph of Quicksilver/Freacnairc Mhearcair (reference)

  • Oomph! : A Preston Pig Story (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Usage Frequency: Oomph

"Oomph" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Oomph" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1493,893

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Oomph

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

oomph

39

girl oomph

11

oomph video

5

lyrics oomph

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translations: Oomph

Language Translations for "oomph"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

сексапил (charms, glamor, glamour, it, sex appeal). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

性感 (sexiness, sexy). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

چاذبه شخصی , دلرباءی (Charm, Mash). (various references)

   

German

  

sex (sex), schwung (accent, batch, bounce, brandished, bunch, buoyancy, crop, dash, emphasis, energy, flourish, ginger, go, gusto, impetus, leap, momentum, motion, panache, pep, pile, raciness, snap, spirit, sweep, swing, verve, vivacity, zap, zest, zip), pep (kick, pep, zap). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oomphay

   

Russian 

  

энергичный (active, aggressive, devil, eager, energetic, full of beans, go ahead, humming, keen, live, macho, peppy, punchy, red blooded, rip-roaring, smart, two-fisted, up and coming, vigorous, youthful, zippy), живой (alive, animate, bouncy, boyish, breathing, breezy, brisk, cheery, chipper, chirp, chirpy, crisp, dashing, hands-on, high-colored, high-coloured, jazzy, jocund, live, lively, living, lusty, nimble, peppy, poignant, quick, rip-roaring, roaring, scintillating, skittish, snappy, sparky, spirited, sprightly, spry, vital, vivacious, vivid, zippy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sexy (sexy), atracción sexual (sex appeal, sexiness). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sex appeal (it, s.a., sex appeal), schvung (pep, verve), entusiasm (alacrity, avidity, enthusiasm, zeal). (various references)

   

Thai

  

พลัง (moxie), ความมีชีวิตชีวา (animation, life, liveliness). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

cazibe (allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charm, charms, desirability, draw, drawing power, enchantment, enticement, fascination, feminene charms, gilt, glamor, glamour, gravitation, it, lure, magnetism, romance, seduction, witchery), çekicilik (affinity, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charisma, charm, comeliness, desirability, fascination, gilt, glamor, glamour, it, pull, romance, seduction, sex appeal, sexiness, witchery). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

жвавість (agility, alacrity, alertness, animation, liveliness, mercuriality, nimbleness, quickness, sparkle, starch, tightness, verve, vigor, vigour, vivacity), енергія (activity, bang, birr, dash, energy, might, nerve, punch, push, sappiness, spring, vim, whiz, whizz, will, zap, zest). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Derivations & Misspellings: Oomph

Derivations

Words beginning with "oomph": oomphs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Oomph" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boomph, doompah, emph, joompah, olonkho, omdh, omph, oompah, oom-pah, ooomph, oph, ouph, Umh, Umph, woomph. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Rhyming with "Oomph"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "oomph" (pronounced uw"mf)
2-m fHumph, lymph, nymph, triumph.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Top     

Anagrams: Oomph

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-m-o-o-p"

-1 letter: homo, hoop, pooh.

-2 letters: hop, mho, moo, mop, ohm, oho, ooh, poh, pom.

-3 letters: hm, ho, mo, oh, om, op.

 Words containing the letters "h-m-o-o-p"
 

+1 letter: morpho, oompah, oomphs.

 

+2 letters: morphos, oompahs, shampoo.

 

+3 letters: homeport, isomorph, neomorph, omophagy, omphalos, oompahed, photomap, shampoos, zoomorph.

 

+4 letters: allomorph, amorphous, ectomorph, endomorph, homeopath, homeports, homograph, homophile, homophobe, homophone, homophony, homoplasy, homopolar, homospory, hypomorph, hypostome, isomorphs, lagomorph, mesomorph, monograph, monophagy, monophony, monophyly, morphogen, mothproof, neomorphs, nomograph, oompahing, pheromone, phonogram, photogram, photomaps, photomask, polymorph, shampooed, shampooer, sophomore, taphonomy, zoomorphs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Oomph


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 6F 6D 70 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

---    ---    --    .--.    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01101111 01101101 01110000 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#111 &#109 &#112 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 006F 006D 0070 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4981798274

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations 		9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

 

 

 

 

Note to the press & webmasters - this dictionary can be linked, indexed, or referred to using the following non-English expressions:
woordeboek, fjalor, ‏معجم, ‏قاموس, diccionariu, речник, diccionari, diksyonario, diksinario, 字典, gérlyver, slovník, ordbog, woordenboek, shimiyuc p'anca, orðabók, orðbók, dictionnaire, wurdboek, wörterbuch, λεξικό, אוצר מילים, szótár, uqausiit tukingit, dizionario, 字引 , じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , 사 , dizionari, recnik, fockleyr, dikshonario, słownik, dicionário, dicţionar, dicziunari, словарь, lolomi fefiloi, foclair, abardair, faclair, briathrachan, pukuntau, leksikon, rečnik, vocabbulariu, diccionario, sí-chazamagâma, ordbok, lexikon, พจนานุกรม, sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, словник, довідник, có tính chất sách vở, geirlyfr, geiriadur, for dictionary;
definisie, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, 定義 , 定义, definice, deskriptordefinition, definitie, määritelmä, définition, ορισμός, "'"ר", "'בל", meghatározás, definíció, definizione, 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, 의, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght, definishon, definição, definiţie, determinare, definire, определение, definicija, definición, definition, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, diffiniad, darnodiad, for definition;
vertaling, transferim, transmetim, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتان, транслация, огъване, превод, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, превеждане, 翻译, překlad, oversættelse, translatie, taajuusmuutos, translaatio, traduction, oersetting, Übersetzung, μετάφραση, תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק, fordítás, traduzione, 翻訳 , へい"ういどう, やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, トランスレーション , やくじゅつ, ほ"やくしょ, 번역, tradukshon, tradução, translaţie, tãlmãcire, traducere, сдвиг, трансляция, перемещение, перевод, tumačenje, traducción, översättning, tercüme, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích, trosiad, for translation;
Bulgaars, Bulgaar, bulgr, ‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, Búlgaru, български, български език, българин, Bulgaryan, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarskt, bulgarialainen, Bulgaarsk, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bullgar, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, Bułgar, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri, for Bulgarian;
Sjinees, Chinees, kinez, ‏الصينية, ‏لغة الصين, ‏صيني, ‏الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, Chinu, китайски, Ininsik, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kinesiskt, kinverskur, kiinalainen, Chinois, Sineesk, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, Kínverji, Sínis, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Cina, Sheenish, Sheenagh, Hainamana, chines, Chińczyk, chinês, chinés, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, Saina, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, snesi, sneysi, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць, for Chinese;
Farsi, Parsi, persiskt, Fasi, for Farsi;
Duits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, gjerman, ‏ضرب من الرقص, ‏جرماني, ‏المانية, ‏الماني, ‏اللغة الألمانية, роден, германски, немски език, немски, немец, готически, германец, 德語 , 德语, 德文 , 德國 , nìmecký, nìmec, tysker, Duitse, týskur, týskt, týskari, saksalainen, Allemand, Dútsk, Deutsche, Deutsch, "ερμανός, gjermanisht, 'רמ י, 'רמ ית, német, þjóðverji, þýskur, GearmÚnach, GearmÚinis, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, todesch, Germaanagh, Garmane, Germaanish, Carmane, aleman, Niemiec, niemiecki, alemão, alemand, neamţ, немецкий, Siamani, germanski, alemán, Tudesku, Doysri, mjeremani, mdachi, sí-Jalimáne, tysk, เยอรมัน, าษาเยอรมัน, Alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr, isiJalimane, iliJalimane, iJalimane, for German;
Russies, Rus, ‏الروسية, ‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, Rusu, руски, руски език, руснак, Rusyan, 俄語 , 俄语, 俄文 , ruština, ruský, russer, russur, russiskt, venäläinen, Russysk, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, rússneskur, Rússi, Rúisis, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, russisk, Rosjanin, русский, Lusia, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, sí-Rashîya, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga, for Russian;
Spaans, Spaanse taal, spanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, espanyoles, Espanyol, 西班牙语, 西班牙文 , 西班牙語 , španìlský, španìlština, spanskt, espanjalainen, espagnol, Spaansk, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, karaiñe'êmegua, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, SpÚinnis, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainagh, Spaainish, spañó, espanhol, espanhòl, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, spaniol, испанский, Sipaniolo, španski jezik, španski, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyolca, ispanyol, іспанська мова, іспанський, for Spanish;
Sweeds, suedez, ‏اللغة السويدية, Suecu, шведски език, шведски, швед, Swedis, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, svenskt, ruotsalainen, suédois, Sweedsk, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, sænskur, Sualainnis, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, suèc, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển, for Swedish;
Tailandes, 泰國 , 泰文 , 泰国, 泰 , thailænder, Thailander, Thai, Thais, thailendskt, thaimaalainen, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, 泰語 , たい", 타이 말, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, คนไทย, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tayland, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський, for Thai;
Turks, turk, ‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, Turcu, турски, турски език, Turko, 土耳其, 土耳其語 , tureètina, turecký, turkist, turkkilainen, turque, turc, Turksk, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türk, türkçe, турецька мова, турецький, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ, for Turkish;
乌克兰, for Ukranian;