Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Spirited vigor.
- noun Physical or sexual attractiveness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun informal, uncountable
Strength ,power ,passion oreffectiveness ;clout . - noun informal, uncountable
Sex appeal . - noun countable A bassy grunting or thudding sound.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the activeness of an energetic personality
- noun attractiveness to the opposite sex
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This rustic white bean soup is stockless and gets its goodness and oomph from the beans 'own cooking liquid.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution Ellen Kanner 2010
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This rustic white bean soup is stockless and gets its goodness and oomph from the beans 'own cooking liquid.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution Ellen Kanner 2010
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This rustic white bean soup is stockless and gets its goodness and oomph from the beans 'own cooking liquid.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution Ellen Kanner 2010
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This rustic white bean soup is stockless and gets its goodness and oomph from the beans 'own cooking liquid.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution Ellen Kanner 2010
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This rustic white bean soup is stockless and gets its goodness and oomph from the beans 'own cooking liquid.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Cooking -- The Next Stage of Evolution Ellen Kanner 2010
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But it could gain oomph through its deal with Microsoft and Dell, which took shape last fall.
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Adding a near term oomph to a degrading balance sheet?
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Microsoft's presscon just wasn't as "oomph" - ish as it should have been.
Nintendo DS 2009
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Looking into the hopefully not too distant future, the Intel iBooks’ selling point is going to be the most reliable OS and UI with the most popular desktop, Windows (plus a little bit extra oomph from the CPU).
Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » Apple Turnover 2006
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What I missed was what I can only describe as the oomph I had expected, the spectacular quality of the sheer mass of them, the "serried ranks" I mentioned above.
reesetee commented on the word oomph
Whaaaat? Where did that definition come from??
December 7, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word oomph
Your guess is as good as mine!
December 7, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word oomph
Holy mackerel, WeirdNet's gone weird!! (Actually, for WeirdNet, it's quite normal.)
December 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word oomph
It is normal, isn't it? I think WeirdNet's slightly perverted. I like that in a dictionary. ;-)
December 9, 2007
bilby commented on the word oomph
Has anyone compiled all the WeirdNet specials into a list yet?
October 14, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word oomph
Well, we're tagging them...
October 14, 2008