Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

whoopsy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.20 in modern English

Syllables: whoop-sy
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

intj

Colloquial

noun

A mistake or blunder.

Informal

noun

Urination, or a piece of excrement.

British usage

noun

A homosexual man, especially one with camp mannerisms.

British usage; Slang

adj

Woozy; disoriented; queasy

Informal

Example Sentences

"Ooh, Betty, the cat's done a whoopsy on the carpet!"
"She felt headachy and a little whoopsy in her stomach."
"She'd forgotten that reading in cars always made her tummy feel a little whoopsy. Now, as she sat in the backseat and they swooped through turn after turn, her tummy felt a lot whoopsy. She closed her eyes. That didn't help at all."

Etymology

From whoops + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms).

Word Breakdown

Suffix: whoops

Usage

Inflected Forms

whoopsie (alternative) whoopsies (plural) more whoopsy (comparative) most whoopsy (superlative)

Questions

What does whoopsy mean?: Whoops; oops.
Where does whoopsy come from?: From whoops + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms).

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