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Blunder vs Howler - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between blunder and howler

is that blunder is a clumsy or embarrassing mistake while howler is that which howls, especially an animal which howls, such as a wolf or a howler monkey.

As a verb blunder

is to make a clumsy or stupid mistake.

blunder

English

(wikipedia blunder)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.

    • Synonyms

    * (error) blooper, boo-boo, error, faux pas, fluff, flub, fumble, gaffe, goof, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.
    • to blunder in preparing a medical prescription
  • To move blindly or clumsily.
  • * Goldsmith
    • I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow.
  • * Dryden
    • blunders on, and staggers every pace
  • To cause to make a mistake.
  • * Ditton
    • To blunder an adversary.
  • To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
  • * Stillingfleet
    • He blunders and confounds all these together.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    howler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which howls, especially an animal which howls, such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
  • A person hired to howl at a funeral
    • Other senses are derivatives of the intensifier "howling", Beale, Paul; Partridge, Eric (1984). A dictionary of slang and unconventional English: colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, and vulgarisms. New York: Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-594980-2 as in "howling wilderness", (Deuteronomy 32:10)Holy Bible: King James Version, The Scofield Study Bible III, Duradera Zipper Black. Oxford University Press, USA. 2005. ISBN 0-19-527867-4.
  • A painfully obvious mistake.
  • * 2009 , Tom Burton, Quadrant , November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 78:
    • A howler is a glaring mistake, a mistake that cries out to be noticed.
  • A hilarious joke.
  • A bitterly cold day
  • A heavy fall, literally or figuratively
  • A serious accident (especially to come a howler or go a howler, e.g. "Our hansom came a howler"; compare: come a cropper)
  • A tremendous lie
  • A fashionably but extravagantly overdressed man, a "howling swell"
  • A calamity howler is "one that makes dismal predictions of impending disaster"Taylor, D. Wooster. The dust of Frisco Town, dedicated to the calamity howler. Publisher: Paul Elder, San Francisco May be downloaded from: http://archive.org/details/dustoffriscotown00taylrich

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