Oopsy vs False - What's the difference?
oopsy | false |
Diminutive form of oops .
* 1992 , Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon
* 2001 , Piers Anthony, The Dastard
* 2007 , Jeff Rowland, The Reel Adventures of a Marion County Angler
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As an interjection oopsy
is diminutive form of oops .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.oopsy
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Alternative forms
* oopsieInterjection
(en interjection)- "Oopsy ..." She grabbed the wheel and made a quick recovery. "Sorry."
- Then she heard the baying. "What's that?" "I fear it's a werewolf pack on the hunt." That she understood. "Oopsy !" She flapped her arms harder...
- The woman then looked directly at the angler and sweetly said, "Oopsy ." She then bent over and deposited his jigs into her tackle bag.
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(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}