flubby

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Southern England, US/flʌbi/

adjective

Characterized by flubs or mistakes; bungled; botched.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveflubby (comparative more flubby, superlative most flubby)

comparative more flubby · superlative most flubby

  1. informalCharacterized by flubs or mistakes; bungled; botched.

    […] a flubby speech at somebody's international dinner.

    1909, The Cosmopolitan, volumes 46-47, page 745
    1 more example

    […] a flubby landing. They left two long greasy skid marks on the concrete before slamming into the curb. They quickly jumped up and lumbered off. The truck's crew was amazed.

    1997, Jerry Piasecki, Ketchup Power and the Starship Meatloaf, page 111
  2. informalFat; flabby; blubbery.

    […] a flubby sort of mouth that Rabbit associates with the Lubells; neither the Angstroms nor the Springers have bunched-up fat lips like that, like a row of plump berries run together […]

    1990, John Updike, Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels, page 1078

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