oops
interjeiçãosubstantivoverbocorrente nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//uːps//
- Reino Unido//ʊps//
- Reino Unido//ʉwps//
- Reino Unido//ɵps//
Used to acknowledge a small mistake or accident.
interjeição
- 1
informalUsed to acknowledge a small mistake or accident.
Oops! I left the lid off the ketchup.
Oops, I did it again / I played with your heart, got lost in the game
- 2
informalUsed to indicate mild surprise or shock.
Etimologia
A presumably 'natural' exclamation, attested in writing since 1921. Related to or a variation of whoops (itself attested since 1933). A shortening of whoops-a-daisy, whoopsie-daisy, or oops-a-daisy, which in turn is a mispronunciation of ups-a-daisy or upsy-daisy.
substantivo
- 1
A minor mistake or unforeseen difficulty.
It's an oops, but one that's your fault, not your puppy's.
Every plan and every activity has an “oops.” Oops, we forgot to..., oops, who was supposed to do that? We all have experienced “oopses”.
Isn't she the same woman who works at Wings that you and Billy almost got arrested for helping her with her last little oops?
My parents had moved to this house, which sat on the border of Corktown and Mexicantown, from their tiny apartment in Ann Arbor—once they found out that their little oops was actually two little oops.
verbo
- 1
To make a mistake; to blunder.
Formas
- plural
- oopses
- pretérito
- oopsed
- particípio passado
- oopsed
- gerúndio
- oopsing
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- oopses
oops · Used to acknowledge a small mistake or accident.
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