different between blooper vs blooter

English

Etymology

bloop +? -er, of US origin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?blu?p?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?blup?/
• Rhymes: -u?p?(?)
• Hyphenation: bloop?er

Noun

blooper (plural bloopers)

1. (informal) A blunder, an error.

   Synonyms: boo-boo, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble; see also Thesaurus:error
2. (baseball, slang) A fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders. [19th c.]

   Synonyms: banjo hit, flare, Texas leaguer
3. (film, informal) A filmed or videotaped outtake that has recorded an amusing accident and/or mistake.
4. (nautical) A gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast of a square-rigged ship; a spanker.
5. (US, dated) A radio which interferes with other radios, causing them to bloop (squeal loudly). [from 1926]
6. (US, military, slang) The Vietnam-era M79 grenade launcher (due to its distinctive report).

Derived terms

• blooper reel

Translations

See also

• (filmed or videotaped outtake): gag reel (“compilation of outtakes”)

References

Further reading

• blooper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• blooper (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• spanker (sail) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• probole

Spanish

Noun

blooper m (plural bloopers)

1. blooper

English

Alternative forms

• bluiter (archaic)

Pronunciation

Noun

blooter (plural blooters)

1. (now slang) A babbler, a bumbling idiot, a fool.
   • 1999 July 13, in the Glasgow Daily Record:

     Women go into pubs... to enjoy a quiet drink with friends. And any halitosis-ridden, hand-wandering blooter who thinks otherwise could find himself stuck up his own optic.

2. (slang) A hard, often wild kick of a ball.
   • 2002 December 23, in the Daily Mail:

     He of the fabulous long-range shot or the useless blooter professes to love everything about Rangers.

3. (slang) A ball kicked in such a way.
4. (slang, Scotland) An unattractive woman.

Verb

blooter (third-person singular simple present blooters, present participle blootering, simple past and past participle blootered)

1. (slang) To do poor work, to botch (a job).
2. (possibly obsolete) To talk foolishly, to babble.
3. (possibly obsolete) To shriek, to cry in a shrill manner.
4. (slang) To kick a ball in a hard and usually wild manner.
   • 2001 August 19, Glasgow Sunday Herald:

     We'd blooter the ball into the terracing.

5. (slang) To smash; to bludgeon.