Definition of flubbing Flubbing
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What does flubbing mean?
Wiktionary 
- flubbing (Verb)
Present participle of flub.
Part of speech
🔤- flubbing, verb, gerund of flub (infinitive).
WordNet
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| flub - an embarrassing mistake | ||
| blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, botch, boner, boo-boo | ||
| mistake, error, fault a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" | ||
| bobble the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; "the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out" | ||
| snafu an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up | ||
| spectacle a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself | ||
| bull a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment" | ||
| fumble, muff (sports) dropping the ball | ||
| fluff a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) | ||
| faux pas, gaffe, solecism, gaucherie, slip a socially awkward or tactless act | ||
| howler a glaring blunder | ||
| clanger a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; "he dropped a clanger" | ||
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| flub - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" | ||
| botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up | ||
| go wrong, miscarry, fail suffer a miscarriage | ||
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