2 Sentences With "umteen"

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SO THE REASONS YOU CAN'T SHORT IT IS BECAUSE IT HAS AN UNBELIEVABLE SALES AND MARKETING MACHINERY THAT WILL FIGURE OUT HOW TO TAX ITS EXISTING CUSTOMERS IN UMTEEN NUMBERS OF BYZANTINE WAYS THAT ARE UNBELIEVABLE AND PROBABLY UNKNOWN TO THE CFOS THAT PAY THEM. from CNBC
Umpteen, umteen or umpty is an unspecified but large number, used in a humorous fashion or to imply that it is not worth the effort to pin down the actual figure. Despite the -teen ending, which would seem to indicate that it lies between 12 and 20, umpteen can be much larger. "Umpty" is first attested in 1905, in the expression "umpty-seven", implying that it is a multiple of ten. (available online to subscribers)Warren Harding, quoted in Advertising & Selling 29:28-52:26 (1920) Ump(ty) came from a verbalization of a dash in Morse code.