Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To botch; bungle.
- noun The act or an instance of botching or bungling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
foozle , 2. - To bang; flop.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
error ; amistake in theperformance an action. - verb transitive To
goof ,fumble , orerr in the performance of an action.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- noun an embarrassing mistake
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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WooMe says the photo flub is just an honest mistake.
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The real reason was to erase any doubt about his power, after what some called the flub heard round the world.
News for NBC13.com 2009
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Ms. Trye says her business partners dismissed the incident as a minor flub, which is one reason why she's since dissolved the partnership and today runs Trye
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Ms. Trye says her business partners dismissed the incident as a minor flub, which is one reason why she's since dissolved the partnership and today runs Trye
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The file name flub was discovered by The Washington Post
Signs of the Times 2009
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The file name flub was discovered by The Washington Post
Signs of the Times 2009
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Mayor Bloomberg called this yet another "flub" in a long line of mistakes.
Confusion Grips Board Of Elections As General Election Looms Jonah Green 2010
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Mayor Bloomberg called this yet another "flub" in a long line of mistakes.
Confusion Grips Board Of Elections As General Election Looms Jonah Green 2010
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Obama did kind of flub the Rockefeller reference, but he did it in a sly way that was factually correct but left the audience with the incorrect impression the the current Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jay Rockefeller, voted against the war in Iraq.
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You may want to start putting quotation maks around the word "flub" and "gaffe".
Mitt Romney Wins Contest For Dumbest Obama-Osama Mixup Yet 2009
wryanlb commented on the word flub
IN the Knight Storm Drum and Bugle Corps in the Late 1990's, a "flub" was a marching bass drum with one head removed and mounted horizontally
October 1, 2011