"fuckup" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfʌkʌp/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fuckup.wav Forms: fuckups [plural]
Etymology: Deverbal from fuck up. Etymology templates: {{deverbal|en|fuck up}} Deverbal from fuck up Head templates: {{en-noun}} fuckup (plural fuckups)
  1. (vulgar) A serious mistake. Tags: vulgar Categories (topical): People Synonyms: screwup, error Translations (serious mistake): fokop (Afrikaans), fuŝo (Esperanto), kämmi (Finnish), moka (Finnish), sähläys (Finnish), connerie [feminine] (French), cagada [feminine] (Galician), porażka [feminine] (Polish), проёб (projób) [masculine] (Russian), embarrada [feminine] (Spanish), quilombo [masculine] (Spanish), cagada [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-fuckup-en-noun--S8t4acp Disambiguation of People: 18 21 33 27 Disambiguation of 'serious mistake': 85 6 5 3
  2. (vulgar, derogatory) One who continually makes mistakes. Tags: derogatory, vulgar Categories (topical): People Synonyms: screwup, unskilled person
    Sense id: en-fuckup-en-noun-Uak7GkpL Disambiguation of People: 18 21 33 27
  3. (vulgar, derogatory) An ineffective person; a person who fucks up a lot. Tags: derogatory, vulgar Categories (topical): People Synonyms: screwup Translations (ineffective person): fokop (Afrikaans), sentaŭgulo (Esperanto), neniulo (Esperanto), boulet [masculine] (French), cassos [masculine] (French), raté [masculine] (French), trimard [masculine] (French), branquignol [masculine] (French), branque [masculine] (French), zjeb [masculine] (Polish), pajac [masculine] (Polish), popierdółka [feminine] (Polish), распиздяй (raspizdjaj) [masculine] (Russian), menzo [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-fuckup-en-noun-xB1LMffE Disambiguation of People: 18 21 33 27 Categories (other): English deverbals, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Afrikaans translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English deverbals: 14 28 52 6 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 25 54 5 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 12 23 59 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 9 27 60 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 25 66 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Afrikaans translations: 14 14 50 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 12 17 66 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 15 17 54 14 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 16 17 61 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 15 17 54 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 16 17 53 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 12 17 66 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 10 16 70 4 Disambiguation of 'ineffective person': 7 5 66 22
  4. (vulgar, derogatory, offensive) A mentally or emotionally damaged person. Tags: derogatory, offensive, vulgar Categories (topical): People Synonyms: screwup
    Sense id: en-fuckup-en-noun-65eWViJe Disambiguation of People: 18 21 33 27
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fuck-up, fuck up Related terms: fuckuppery Translations (person making mistakes): fokop (Afrikaans), fuŝulo (Esperanto), kämmäri (Finnish), mokailija (Finnish), mogari (Finnish), sähläri (Finnish), tunari (Finnish), boulet [masculine] (French), branquignol [masculine] (French), zjeb [masculine] (Polish), nieogar [masculine] (Polish), pierdoła [feminine] (Polish), долбоёб (dolbojób) [masculine] (Russian), tarado [masculine] (Spanish), boludo [masculine] (Spanish), pelotudo [masculine] (Spanish), idiota [masculine] (Spanish), patán [masculine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'person making mistakes': 19 18 34 30

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "expansion": "fuckup (plural fuckups)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "fuckuppery"
    }
  ],
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        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English vulgarities"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "Forgetting our anniversary was a major fuckup.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Stephen King, Firestarter, Simon and Schuster, published 2016, →ISBN, page 464:",
          "text": "The gate was high; it had been a nine-foot drop; she had landed wrong and broken her arm. Oh Jesus Christ, what a fuckup.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A serious mistake."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mistake",
          "mistake"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(vulgar) A serious mistake."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "screwup"
        },
        {
          "word": "error"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "vulgar"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English vulgarities"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You've got to fire that fuckup.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who continually makes mistakes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "mistakes",
          "mistakes"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(vulgar, derogatory) One who continually makes mistakes."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "screwup"
        },
        {
          "word": "unskilled person"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English vulgarities"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Don't mind me; I'm just a harmless fuckup.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I can't believe she's dating that colossal fuckup, all he does is bitch about baseball.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, John Hodge, Shallow Grave, spoken by Alex Law (Ewan McGregor):",
          "text": "Family? Family? Friends? Drugged-up wandering suicidal search-of-the-self fuck-ups don't have families.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Dr. Oz and Nutritional Supplements […] Having a monarchy means the fate of your country is basically a genetic lottery, because every family has the one fuckup they talk about behind their backs. And if you’re thinking, “my family doesn’t,” then I’m afraid it’s you. I’m sorry about that.”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 8, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An ineffective person; a person who fucks up a lot."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "fucks up",
          "fucks up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(vulgar, derogatory) An ineffective person; a person who fucks up a lot."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "screwup"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English offensive terms",
        "English vulgarities"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A mentally or emotionally damaged person."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(vulgar, derogatory, offensive) A mentally or emotionally damaged person."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "screwup"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "offensive",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfʌkʌp/"
    },
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fuck-up"
    },
    {
      "word": "fuck up"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "serious mistake",
      "word": "fokop"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "serious mistake",
      "word": "fuŝo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "serious mistake",
      "word": "kämmi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "serious mistake",
      "word": "moka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "serious mistake",
      "word": "sähläys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "serious mistake",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "connerie"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "serious mistake",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cagada"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "serious mistake",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "porażka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "projób",
      "sense": "serious mistake",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "проёб"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "serious mistake",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "embarrada"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "serious mistake",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "quilombo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "serious mistake",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cagada"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "word": "fokop"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "word": "fuŝulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "word": "kämmäri"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "word": "mokailija"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "word": "mogari"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "word": "sähläri"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "word": "tunari"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "boulet"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "branquignol"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zjeb"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nieogar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pierdoła"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dolbojób",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "долбоёб"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tarado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "boludo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pelotudo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "idiota"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person making mistakes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "patán"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "ineffective person",
      "word": "fokop"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "ineffective person",
      "word": "sentaŭgulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "ineffective person",
      "word": "neniulo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ineffective person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "boulet"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ineffective person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cassos"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ineffective person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "raté"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ineffective person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "trimard"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ineffective person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "branquignol"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ineffective person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "branque"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ineffective person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zjeb"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ineffective person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pajac"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ineffective person",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "popierdółka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "raspizdjaj",
      "sense": "ineffective person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "распиздяй"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ineffective person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "menzo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fuckup"
}

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