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单词 howler
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howler

England could make a dozen howlers and win comfortably.It is possible to camp at the site and wake up to the screams of howler monkeys.Are you louder than a howler monkey?Yet their defensive howlers began early.Our daughter's trust throws up another howler.Your alarm clock is the on-site howler monkeys.Then it was time to tie the boat to a twig and go into the rainforest on foot in search of howler monkeys.The sound effects were also incredible, with the howler monkey competing for centre stage.So we had a pet howler monkey - amazing!The script is a howler that'll make you sit up in shock before rolling over with laughter.The hosts were twice ahead in a game they needed to win, but were pegged back thanks to a defensive howler.Then we had another TMO howler.Each one has committed a howler, from getting stuck in railings to being wedged in mid-air between two fences.We speed along the centre, the wind in our hair, the call of howler monkeys in thetrees along the banks.Beneath my supersonic feet I can hear howler monkeys in the trees launching a dawn chorus that sounds worryingly like a pack of hungry wolves.They will always make howlers and for as long as the sport is played for money, referees' howlerswill cost people their fortunes and their jobs.
(noun) 
Definition
a glaring mistake
(informal) 
I felt as if I had made an outrageous howler.
Synonyms
mistake
He says there must have been some mistake.
bull (slang)
error
NASA discovered a mathematical error in its calculations.
blunder
I think we have made a tactical blunder.
boob (British, slang)
bloomer (British, informal)
clanger (informal)
malapropism
schoolboy howler
booboo (informal)
barry or Barry Crocker (Australian, slang)
boner (slang, mainly US)

Additional synonyms

in the sense of blunder
Definition
a stupid or clumsy mistake
I think we have made a tactical blunder.
Synonyms
mistake,
slip,
fault,
error,
boob (British, slang),
oversight,
gaffe,
slip-up (informal),
indiscretion,
impropriety,
howler (informal),
bloomer (British, informal),
clanger (informal),
faux pas,
boo-boo (informal),
gaucherie,
barry or Barry Crocker (Australian, slang)
in the sense of error
Definition
a mistake, inaccuracy, or misjudgment
NASA discovered a mathematical error in its calculations.
Synonyms
mistake,
slip,
fault,
blunder,
flaw,
boob (British, slang),
delusion,
oversight,
misconception,
fallacy,
inaccuracy,
howler (informal),
bloomer (British, informal),
miscalculation,
misapprehension,
solecism (formal),
erratum,
barry or Barry Crocker (Australian, slang),
boner (slang, US)

Nearby words of
howler

  • hover
  • however
  • howl
  • howler
  • hoyden
  • hoydenish
  • hub

Synonyms of 'howler'

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