adv
(Britain, dialectal) Out of control.
n
(UK, informal, humorous) A little fault or problem.
n
A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
n
An event, period or situation characterized by many blunders.
n
Someone who habitually makes mistakes or blunders
adj
Prone to make blunders.
adj
Indicating or marked by blunders or mistakes; messed-up.
adj
(informal, Britain, imitating working class or uneducated pronunciation) bothered
n
The act of one who bumbles; a mistake or error, especially through clumsiness.
n
Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.
n
Alternative form of butterfingers [Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.]
n
Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.
v
(intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.
n
(sports, humorous) The supposed propensity of a player to blunder after having their talents pointed out by the commentator.
n
(humorous) An anti-masterpiece; a complete disaster.
n
Alternative form of debacle. [An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.]
adj
(slang) Amusing while also a failure.
n
(informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
n
(idiomatic, humorous) A tendency to make remarks that are embarrassingly wrong or inappropriate.
v
To do something clumsily or awkwardly; to bungle.
n
One who bungles; a maker of mistakes.
n
(archaic, slang) A mistake; a blunder.
n
A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe.
n
A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public.
n
(idiomatic) Highly adverse circumstances; acts of God.
n
A blunder that occurs as the result of a strenuous effort to avoid it, such as spilling a drink because one is concentrating on not doing so.
v
(slang, archaic) To confound; to damn.
n
(US politics) A mistake whereby a politician inadvertently says something truthful which they had not meant to reveal.
v
(Britain slang) To annoy or irritate deliberately.
v
(intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To act timidly.
n
(humorous) The fraction of time between making a mistake and realizing it.
n
(UK, informal, chiefly politics) A situation that is bad or mismanaged in every way.
adj
(now Scotland) Of people: idle, unemployed, disreputable.
n
(figuratively) A blunder that damages one’s own prospects.
n
(obsolete) A vile, dissolute wretch.
adj
Prone to roaming around.
n
(UK, informal) A fundamental, simple mistake.
n
(slang, idiomatic) The occurrence of casual, ill-informed and hasty decisions or comments made by outside authorities who lack an understanding of the local issues or a real understanding of the facts of a particular situ.
adj
(participial adjective) Cheated; short-changed; ripped off.
v
To behave awkwardly or clumsily
n
A blundering or awkward person.
adj
(slang, archaic) Done for; bankrupt or ruined.
n
(idiomatic) An adventure or active endeavor that is characterized by (often humorous) errors.
n
(Cockney rhyming slang) A state (of upset, worry).
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