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screwup en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Deverbal from screw up.

Meanings

  1. (colloquial) A substantial mistake, usually causing problems for more people than just the person or group who made it.
    • The Ford administration emerged in better shape than it deserved from the fantastic screw-up that preceded the release of the Rockefeller... 1977, John Osborne, White House watch: the Ford years, page 147:
  2. (colloquial) A person who often makes substantial mistakes; a bungler.
  3. (colloquial) A person who is mentally or emotionally damaged.

Forms

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Synonyms

pisher · fumblefingers · slip · dauber · screwup · fluff · auf · dumbshit · fuckup · stumble · boner · faux pas · trapes · goof · howler · fuckup · blunder · yutz · disadventure · messup · blunderhead · gaffe · stumblebum · mess-up · shit bird · muff · spaz · schmuck · klutz · bloomer · break · slipup · fuckup · misadventure · palooka · blunderer · erroneity · gaum · mistake · fumbler · alcatote · aberration · clanger · gype · bungler · goon · cock-up · solecism · schlemiel · oopsy · sad sack · misstep · maladroit · lomperd · lapsus · error · turkey · lummox · butterfingers · inaccuracy · duffer · lumpkin · thinko · peabrain · floater · blooper · lapse · slip-up · galoot · gobaloon · weapon · fuckup · wrength · screwup · mess-up · clodhopper · chucklehead · oaf · flub · boo-boo · slangrill · gawk · fault · botcher · lubber · looby · bumbler · fuckup

Translations (18)

af knaterflater (substantial mistake) · fi ryssijä (person who often makes substantial mistakes) · pt vacilo (substantial mistake) · fi moka (substantial mistake) · de Versager (person who often makes substantial mistakes) · fi sössijä (person who often makes substantial mistakes) · eo fuŝulo (person who often makes substantial mistakes) · pl patałach (person who often makes substantial mistakes) · eo fuŝisto (person who often makes substantial mistakes) · fi möhläys (substantial mistake) · pt vacilão (person who often makes substantial mistakes) · pl fuszerka (substantial mistake) · pl partanina (substantial mistake) · fi möhlijä (person who often makes substantial mistakes) · eo fuŝo (substantial mistake) · fi tunari (person who often makes substantial mistakes) · fi tunarointi (substantial mistake) · pl niedojda (person who often makes substantial mistakes)