oomph
/ʊmf
/ /uːmf /(also umph)
noun [mass noun] informal
The quality of being exciting, energetic, or sexually attractive: he showed entrepreneurial oomph...
- Then real actresses could return to movie screens so audiences could have what they crave - good old sexual oomph.
- There's also enough oomph in them to push the water up roof overhangs and second-story windows.
- And in fifth gear it simply didn't have enough oomph to overcome gravity.
Origin
1930s: perhaps imitative.
- criminaldom
- criminal injury
- criminal intent
- criminal investigation
- criminal investigator
- criminalisation
- criminalise
- criminalism
- criminalistic
- criminalistics
- criminality
- criminalization
- criminalize
- criminal justice system
- criminal law
- criminal lawyer
- criminal libel
- criminally
- criminal negligence
- criminalness
- criminaloid
- criminal record
- criminalty
- criminate
- criminative