Blunder vs Slippery - What's the difference?
blunder | slippery |
To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.
To move blindly or clumsily.
* Goldsmith
* Dryden
To cause to make a mistake.
* Ditton
To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
* Stillingfleet
Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
(figuratively, by extension) Evasive; difficult to pin down.
(obsolete) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
* 1602 , , III. iii. 84:
unstable; changeable; inconstant
* Denham
(obsolete) wanton; unchaste; loose in morals
* 1610 , , I. ii. 273:
As a noun blunder
is a clumsy or embarrassing mistake.As a verb blunder
is to make a clumsy or stupid mistake.As an adjective slippery is
of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.blunder
English
(wikipedia blunder)Synonyms
* (error) blooper, boo-boo, error, faux pas, fluff, flub, fumble, gaffe, goof, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinkoVerb
(en verb)- to blunder in preparing a medical prescription
- I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow.
- blunders on, and staggers every pace
- To blunder an adversary.
- He blunders and confounds all these together.
Anagrams
* ----slippery
English
Adjective
(er)- Oily substances render things slippery .
- a slippery person
- a slippery promise
- Which when they fall, as being slippery' standers, / The love that leaned on them, as ' slippery too, / Do one pluck down another, and together / Die in the fall.
- The slippery state of kings.
- My wife is slippery ? If thou wilt confess –
