| 单词 | flub |
| 释义 | flub (once / 34062 pages) vn To flub something is to really mess it up. When a movie actor flubs his lines, the scene can be filmed again. But, if he's a stage actor, there's no way to fix the mistake. Even a star basketball player flubs an easy layup sometimes, and the very best students occasionally flub a quiz. The mistake or blunder itself can also be called a flub: "The concert was terrible, full of flubs." The word's been around since the 1920's, possibly influenced by words like "fluff" and "flop," and definitely coined in the United States. WORD FAMILYflub: flubbed, flubbing, flubs USAGE EXAMPLESAcknowledging her methodology as “a copy editor’s nightmare,” Ms. Faludi said she flubbed it only once. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) A few years ago, I was singing Christmas carols in a senior center and I flubbed the words to “Silent Night.” Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) A few minutes into the song, whose knotty verses grow more surreal with each stanza, Smith flubbed the lyrics. Los Angeles Times(Dec 15, 2016) 1v make a mess of, destroy or ruin Syn|Hyper ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, fluff, foul up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil fail, go wrong, miscarry be unsuccessful 2n an embarrassing mistake Syn|Hypo|Hyper bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, foul-up, pratfall bobble the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball spectaclea blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself bulla serious and ludicrous blunder fumble, muff(sports) dropping the ball fluffa blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip, solecisma socially awkward or tactless act howlera glaring blunder clangera conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate misstep, stumble, trip, trip-upan unintentional but embarrassing blunder error, fault, mistake a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention |
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