English > bungle: 3 senses > noun 1, actMeaning | An embarrassing mistake. |
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Synonyms | blunder, blooper, bloomer, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo |
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Narrower | bobble | The momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball |
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bull | A serious and ludicrous blunder |
clanger | A conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate |
faux pas, gaffe, solecism, slip, gaucherie | A socially awkward or tactless act |
fluff | A blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) |
fumble, muff | (sports) dropping the ball |
howler | A glaring blunder |
snafu | An acronym often used by soldiers in World War II |
spectacle | A blunder that makes you look ridiculous |
trip, trip-up, stumble, misstep | An unintentional but embarrassing blunder |
Broader | mistake, error, fault | A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention |
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Spanish | blooper, boner, buñuelo, cagada, caída, cantada, cante, chapucear, chapucería, chapuza, disparate, embrollo, equivocación, error, estropeo, flub, gazapatón, gazapo, metedura de pata, patinazo, patochada, pifia, plancha |
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Catalan | boner, bunyol, espifiada, flub, nyap, pífia |
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Verbs | bungle | spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly |
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bungle | make a mess of, destroy or ruin |