oops

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• o͝ops
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• Received-Pronunciation: /uːps/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ʊps/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ʉwps/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ɵps/
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• General-American: /ups/
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• General-American: /ʊps/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ʉːps/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ʊps/
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• Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /ʉps/
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• rhymes with -uːps
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• rhymes with -ʊps
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• CMU ARPABET: UW1 P S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

102 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: آهٍ (ʔāhin) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Breton: chaous — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Catalan: vaja — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Chinese Mandarin: 哎呀 (āiyā, āiyá) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Chinese Mandarin: 啊哈 (āhā) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Czech: jejda — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Danish: ups — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Danish: hovsa — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Dutch: oeps — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Dutch: oei — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Dutch: ai — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Dutch: amaai — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Esperanto: ups — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Esperanto: oj — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Finnish: ups — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Finnish: oho — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Finnish: hups — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Finnish: upsista — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Finnish: hupsis — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Finnish: hupsista — acknowledging a minor mistake
• French: oups — acknowledging a minor mistake
• French: houp! — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Georgian: უი (ui) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Georgian: ვაი (vai) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Georgian: უფს (ups) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• German: ups — acknowledging a minor mistake
• German: huch — acknowledging a minor mistake
• German: hoppla — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Greek: ουπς (oups) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Hebrew: אוּפְּס (úps) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Hebrew: אוֹישׁ (óysh) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Hebrew: אֲהָהּ (aháh) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Hebrew: וַוי (wáy) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Hebrew: וַואי (wáy) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Hebrew: אוֹי (óy) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Hebrew: אוֹי וַאֲבוֹי (óy va'avóy) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Hebrew: אוֹיָה (oyá) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Hebrew: חֲבָל (khavál) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Hebrew: פָדִיחָה (fadíkha) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Hungarian: hoppá — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Hungarian: hopp — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Hungarian: ajjaj — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Icelandic: úps — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Icelandic: æ — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Icelandic: obbosí — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Indonesian: ups — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Irish: hoips — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Irish: úps — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Italian: ups — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Italian: ops — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Japanese: おっと (otto) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Japanese: しまった (shimatta) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Japanese: あら (ara) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Japanese: おや (oya) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Japanese: あらら (arara) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Japanese: はあ (hā) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Korean: 아차 (acha) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Malay: oop — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Navajo: yíh — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Navajo: wah — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Navajo: waháá — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Polish: oj — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Polish: ups — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Portuguese: opa — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Portuguese: ops — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Romanian: ups — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Russian: ой (oj) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Russian: упс (ups) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Russian: ох (ox) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Serbo-Croatian: ups — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Serbo-Croatian: jao — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Serbo-Croatian: šit — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Serbo-Croatian: ajoj — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Serbo-Croatian: joj — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Spanish: uy — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Spanish: vaya — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Spanish: ops — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Spanish: ups — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Swedish: hoppsan — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Swedish: oj — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Tagalog: ay — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Turkish: ay — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Turkish: hop — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Turkish: eyvah — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Turkish: hoppala — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Turkish: aman — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Ukrainian: ой (oj) — acknowledging a minor mistake
• Dutch: oeps — used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake
• Dutch: oei — used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake
• Finnish: ups — used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake
• Finnish: oho — used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake
• Hungarian: hoppáka — used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake
• Japanese: おっと (otto) — used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake
• Japanese: あら (ara) — used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake
• Malay: oop — used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake
• Polish: oj — used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake
• Polish: ups — used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake
• Russian: ой (oj) — used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake
• Russian: упс (ups) — used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake
• Spanish: oh oh — used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake
• Turkish: tüh — used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake
• Turkish: ay — used sarcastically to acknowledge a major mistake