flub

noun · verbA1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

flubs

1.
(Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, informal)An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
1962 November 6, Richard Nixon, “Gentlemen, this is my last press conference”, 2008, Rick Perlstein (editor), Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents, page 111, I made a talk on television, a talk in which I made a flub—one of the few that I make, not because I′m so good on television but because I′ve been doing it a long time. I made a flub in which I said I was running for governor of the United States.
2.
(Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, slang)A fold of fat.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

flubs

V_ing/Gerund

flubbing

V_ed/pp

flubbed

1.
(Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, informal, transitive)To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

flubbyflub up

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Nguồn gốc từ

Possibly suggested by fluff and flop. First appeared in the US as a verb c. 1924, and as a noun c. 1953.