Oops!!! I made a mistake. Well we are humans, I know mistakes are unpleasant but at times
they can be useful as well. And as I said, we are humans, mistakes are inevitable. So
let's see what are we going to learn today.
Welcome everyone, thanks for clicking, I'm Niharika and in today's lesson, we are going
to look at some slang terms used for making mistakes. Well we all make mistakes, yes whether
we are kids, adults, old people, we all make mistakes, quit inevitable. So in today's lesson
we are going to look at these fun words that will help you to talk about making mistakes
and probably if you use these fun words, people might let go of your mistakes. So let's get
started. The very first one that I have for you is blooper. What's a blooper? Well yes
it is a mistake but a clumsy or an embarrassing mistake. Now when do you get embarrassed?
When you have to face people, right? So blooper is an embarrassing mistake, especially. One
made in front of many people. Like I have to share this story with you. last weekend
I went to the mall and I went to the washroom okay the public washroom that’s in the mall
and while I was cleaning my hands by mistakenly I dropped my phone. Yes I dropped my phone
and people just are looking at me, gave that weird look and yes it was quite embarrassing.
So if I have to talk about this situation, I’m going to use this slang term by saying
dropping my phone in the sink in a public washroom was a complete blooper. So it was
quite an embarrassing mistake, right? So if you have any embarrassing stories, where you
have made mistakes, try and using this word instead of the boring word that's mistake.
Alright let's have a look at another one which is boo boo. Now this term of course it's a
slang term again and it has several meanings. One of the most common meaning is, you know
when we get hurt, like we physically injure ourselves, maybe we scratch ourselves and
you call that a boo boo. Aww... you got a boo boo. So it means you got a physical injury.
So that's a boo boo. But of course that injury is nothing related to this lesson. So a boo
boo also means a silly stupid mistake. Yes there are times when we all make these silly
mistakes. So what do we call such silly mistakes? A perfect term that you can use is boo boo.
Uh... I’m so done with your boo boos at work. So it means that probably I have a colleague
who keeps making these silly mistakes. So I’m not going to say silly mistakes, I’m
going to use the term boo boo, alright.
Let’s have a look at the third term which is slip up. Now slip up is again a very careless
error. Like for example, a friend of mine, okay what he did, well yes he slipped up.
Now why am I using the term slipped up? Because he made a careless mistake, a careless error
and what was it? Well he ended up calling his current girlfriend by his ex's girlfriend’s
name, oops yeah he slipped up. That was quite a careless mistake calling his girlfriend
by his ex's name. Yes so he slipped up. Yes so he slipped up. So it means it was a careless
mistake on his part.
Let’s have a look at the fourth term which is boner. Now what does this really mean?
Well boner means a clumsy blunder and how do you use this term? Well let's look
at an example. My friend took a girl out on a date and he bonered that date. So here what
I really mean is that he made a mistake and what was the mistake? Well the date was really
going fine, okay they were having a good time, they were chatting and then he dropped hot
soup on her. Well he spilt hot soup on her and wow that is quite clumsy mistake, right?
So he completed bonered the date. Alright so he made a clumsy blunder. That's how you
can use this term.
Now let's look at the fifth term that we have, which is screw up. Yes we use this term when
we completely mess up a situation or we mess up something. Like I went on the weekend to
a pizza place, I was craving pizza so I ordered for a nice, delicious pizza and I was really
excited because after a long time I was having the pizza but then guess what? Well the pizza
was completely unpalatable. I couldn't eat it. So the chef totally screwed up the pizza.
So it means that he messed up the pizza. It didn't taste good, it was of course a mistake
on his part, so I'm going to use the term that he screwed up the pizza, right? So if
you have people who mess up situations or who tend to mess up everything, then try to
use this term, you will sound really nice. Alright let's have a look at another term,
which is flub. Yes what does this really mean? Well flub again means a clumsy mistake. Now
how do you use this term? Well for example, I go for a presentation, okay may be there's
a big conference and I go for a presentation and I make mistakes.so I haven't carried my
job well okay. I did a bad job at my presentation. I screwed up the introduction; I didn't talk
about the content correctly. So yes it was quite a clumsy mistake and of course my bosses
didn't appreciate that. So I made flubbed the presentation. Okay so an action which
was not carried out well. Okay it was badly done, it was a clumsy mistake on your part,
then you can use the term flub. So I flubbed the presentation, so it means I made a mistake
okay it was not right on my part while I was giving that presentation, right?
Let’s have a look at another term which is, bungle. Now bungle can be similarly used
as this one. Okay it also means an action which is carried out badly. Now let's use
this word in an example, now your company's accounts department, their work is not that
great, they do make mistakes, may be silly mistakes. So their work is carried out badly,
right? So how are you gonna use the word, you are gonna say, the accounts department
bungled with the company's accounts okay. So they made a big blunder, they made a mistake
while doing the accounts for the company, alright. So that's how you will use this term.
And then let's have a look at the last term which is goof up. Now goof up is again a careless
mistake and especially because of irresponsible behaviour. Yes there are so many people around
us who are so irresponsible. Well these irresponsible people literally get on my nerves because
they goof up things easily. So goof up is careless mistake
because of irresponsible behaviour. So if you have such people around you, for their
mistakes rather than saying, hey you have been making so many silly mistakes. So rather
than using this term, try and using this term which is goof up, okay. So you have goofed
up a lot these days or you have been goofing up too much these days. So it means that you
have been making a lot of careless mistakes because you are irresponsible about your work,
okay. So that’s how you will use these words.
So we have 8 expressions, 8 slang terms that you have learnt today, try and use them in
your daily conversation instead of using the same old boring word which is mistake. Their
fun to use and I’m sure, there's a probability that people they just let go of your mistakes.
So I'll be back with a new lesson soon, till then you take care.