blaps

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noun

A blunder, a mistake.

OriginAfrikaans blaps →
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Meanings

blaps1

nounblaps (plural blapses)

plural blapses

  1. South AfricainformalA blunder, a mistake.

    It seems to me that those are the kind of mistakes that might be made by somebody who does not have English as a first language - and I believe that Feri is such a person. ¶ Besides, do spelling or grammatical blapses invalidate an argument?

    2007 October 20, Bob Dubery, “Re: Has anybody else noticed?”, in soc.culture.south-africa (Usenet)

BLAPs2

noun
  1. pluralplural of BLAP.

Origin

  1. Afrikaansblaps“howler, blooper”
  2. Englishblaps

Borrowed from Afrikaans blaps (“howler, blooper”).

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APA

blaps. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blaps

MLA

“blaps.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blaps. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blaps,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blaps.

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