oomph
IPA: ˈumf
noun
- (informal, uncountable) Strength, power, passion or effectiveness; clout.
- (informal, uncountable) Sex appeal.
- (countable) A bassy grunting or thudding sound.
verb
- (intransitive) To produce a bassy grunting or thudding sound.
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Examples of "oomph" in Sentences
- Adding a near term oomph to a degrading balance sheet?
- Microsoft's presscon just wasn't as "oomph" - ish as it should have been.
- But it could gain oomph through its deal with Microsoft and Dell, which took shape last fall.
- This rustic white bean soup is stockless and gets its goodness and oomph from the beans 'own cooking liquid.
- 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.
- 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).
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