whoops
/wʊps
/British (also whoops-a-daisy)
exclamation informal
Expressing mild dismay or regret (used when someone has had an accident or made a mistake): Whoops! I nearly dropped it...
- I'm walking along, carrying Jackson, and then whoops!
- That was the consensus on the left - until, whoops!
- At the time, I took a lot of criticism by people saying it's not happening to any of us - and whoops!
Origin
1920s: probably an alteration of upsy-daisy; compare with oops.
Rhymes
- woman's place
- woman's poet
- woman's refuge
- woman's righter
- woman's rightist
- woman's rights
- woman's shelter
- woman's tailor
- woman's trouble
- woman's troubles
- woman suffrage
- woman suffragist
- woman surgeon
- woman's woman
- woman's work
- Hymie
- hymn
- hymnal
- hymnary
- hymn book
- hymnic
- hymnodist
- hymnody
- hymnographer
- hymnography