Synonyms of the word bollix


BOLLIXBLOW - BOBBLE - BODGE - BOLLOCKS - BOTCH - BUMBLE - BUNGLE - FAIL - FLUB - FLUFF - FUMBLE - MISCARRY - MISHANDLE - MUFF - SPOIL

bollix

  • v. (transitive) To confuse.
  • v. (transitive) To botch or bungle.
  • n. confusion.
  • n. mess.

blow

  • adj. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
  • v. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
  • v. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
  • v. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
  • v. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
  • v. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
  • v. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
  • v. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while…
  • v. (intransitive) To explode.
  • v. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly…
  • v. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
  • v. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
  • v. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
  • v. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
  • v. (transitive) To leave.
  • v. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
  • v. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
  • v. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
  • v. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
  • v. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
  • v. (obsolete) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
  • v. (slang, informal, African American Vernacular) To sing.
  • n. A strong wind.
  • n. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
  • n. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
  • n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
  • n. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
  • n. The act of striking or hitting.
  • n. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
  • n. A damaging occurrence.
  • v. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
  • n. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
  • n. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
  • n. A bloom, state of flowering.

bobble

  • n. A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
  • n. (Britain) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie.
  • n. (informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
  • n. (knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
  • n. A wobbling motion.
  • v. (intransitive) To bob up and down.
  • v. (US) To make a mistake in.
  • v. (intransitive) To roll slowly.

bodge

  • v. (Britain) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
  • v. To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
  • n. A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
  • n. (historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
  • n. (South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
  • adj. (slang, Northern Ireland) Insane, off the rails.

bollocks

  • n. (Britain, vulgar) The testicles (sometimes used in the singular).
  • n. (Britain, vulgar) Nonsense or information deliberately intended to mislead.
  • n. (Ireland, vulgar) An idiot, an ignorant or disagreeable person.
  • n. (Britain, vulgar) A contraction of the dog's bollocks.
  • v. (transitive, Britain, taboo, slang) To break.
  • v. (transitive, Britain, taboo, slang) (also bollocks up) To fail (a task); to make a mess of.
  • interj. (Britain, taboo, slang) Expressing anger, frustration, etc.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bollock.

botch

  • v. (transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something;…
  • v. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
  • v. To repair or mend clumsily.
  • n. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly.
  • n. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
  • n. A ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work; mess; bungle.
  • n. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
  • n. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
  • n. (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
  • n. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.

bumble

  • n. A confusion, jumble.
  • v. To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes.
  • n. A bumble-bee.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) The bittern.
  • v. (intransitive) To boom, as a bittern; to buzz, as a fly.

bungle

  • n. A botched or incompetently handled situation.
  • v. To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.

fail

  • v. (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
  • v. (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually…
  • v. (transitive) To neglect.
  • v. (intransitive, of a machine, etc.) To cease to operate correctly.
  • v. (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert.
  • v. (intransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
  • v. (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To miss attaining; to lose.
  • v. To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
  • v. (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.
  • v. (archaic) To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
  • v. (archaic) To deteriorate in respect to vigour, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
  • v. (obsolete) To perish; to die; used of a person.
  • v. (obsolete) To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
  • v. To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's…
  • n. (uncountable, slang) Poor quality; substandard workmanship.
  • n. (slang) A failure (condition of being unsuccessful).
  • n. (slang, US) A failure (something incapable of success).
  • n. A failure, especially of a financial transaction (a termination of an action).
  • n. A failing grade in an academic examination.
  • adj. (slang, US) That is a failure.
  • n. A piece of turf cut from grassland.

flub

  • n. (informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.
  • v. (transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.

fluff

  • n. Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
  • n. Anything inconsequential or superficial.
  • n. Lapse, especially a mistake in an actor’s lines.
  • n. (New England) Marshmallow creme.
  • n. (LGBT) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
  • n. (Australia, euphemistic) A fart.
  • v. (transitive) To make something fluffy.
  • v. (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
  • v. (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one’s lines.
  • v. (transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
  • v. (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To fart.
  • v. (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.

fumble

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To idly touch or nervously handle.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something.
  • v. (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
  • v. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc.
  • v. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
  • n. (sports) A ball etc. that has been dropped.

miscarry

  • v. (obsolete) To have an unfortunate accident of some kind; to be killed, or come to harm.
  • v. (now rare) To go astray; to do something wrong.
  • v. To have a miscarriage; to abort a foetus, usually without intent to do so.
  • v. To fail to achieve some purpose; to be unsuccessful, to go wrong (of a business, project etc.).
  • v. Of a letter etc.: to fail to reach its intended recipient.

mishandle

  • v. To handle badly, causing physical injury.
  • v. To handle incorrectly; to make a mistake in handling a thing or situation.

muff

  • n. (historical) A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
  • n. (slang) Female pubic hair; the vulva.
  • n. (glassblowing) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
  • n. The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
  • n. A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
  • n. (colloquial) A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
  • n. (slang, chiefly sports) An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
  • n. A bird, the whitethroat.
  • v. (sports) To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
  • v. To mishandle; to bungle.
  • n. (slang) A muffin.

spoil

  • v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
  • v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
  • v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
  • v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
  • v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
  • v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
  • n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
  • n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

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