dynamism, pizzazz, pizzaz, oomph, zing
(noun) the activeness of an energetic personality
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Emerged in the 1930s' as a play on the word triumph: "try umph to triumph". The spelling evolved to the phonetic "oomph" over the 20th century.
oomph (countable and uncountable, plural oomphs)
(informal, uncountable) Strength, power, passion or effectiveness; clout.
(informal, uncountable) Sex appeal.
(countable) A bassy grunting or thudding sound.
• (force or power): welly
oomph (third-person singular simple present oomphs, present participle oomphing, simple past and past participle oomphed)
(intransitive) To produce a bassy grunting or thudding sound.
Source: Wiktionary
29 May 2025
(adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; “a critical reading”; “a critical dissertation”; “a critical analysis of Melville’s writings”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
