blooper

a stupid mistake made in public

TRANSLATION

(peinlicher) Fehler, Patzer; der Ausrutscher

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

Here are 3 real student BLOOPERS from real history test answers:

(1) Without the Greeks, we wouldn't have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns - Corinthian, Doric and Ironic. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intolerable. Achilles appears in "The Illiad", by Homer. Homer also wrote the "Oddity", in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.

(2) Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miquel Cervantes. He wrote "Donkey Hote".

(3) The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote "Paradise Lost". Then his wife died and he wrote "Paradise Regained".

Did you
know?

blooper (informal)

A clumsy mistake, especially one made in public; a faux pas.

This word dates from 1937 and although it is more common in the USA than in Britain, is is well understood in the UK.

Synonyms:

blooper, boner, boo-boo, bungle, dumb move, dumb trick, error, fault, faux pas, flub, flub-up, fluff, gaff, gaffe, goof, howler, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, lapse, muff, oversight, slip, slip-up, solecism, trip

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