Where does “whoops” come from?

Whoops derives from English whoop plus the English possessive or plural suffix -'s, which continues Middle English -s from Old French -esse, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -iskos and -ēs.

whoops (English): Oops; plural of whoop; Third-person singular...

Definitions

  1. Oops; plural of whoop; Third-person singular...

Ancestry of “whoops”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishwhoops-a-daisyUsed to acknowledge a mistake

Words derived from “whoops

Every word from English whoops-a-daisy