Adjective: whoopsy
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more whoopsy |
| Superlative | most whoopsy |
Sample Sentences
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She felt headachy and a little whoopsy in her stomach. [1999, Stephen King, The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon, page 40:]
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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. [2014, Ellen Miles, The Puppy Place #34: Zipper:]
Adjectives inflected like whoopsy
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From whoops + -y (adjectival suffix).