blunderfest
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[edit]blunderfest (plural blunderfests)
- An event, period or situation characterized by many blunders.
- 1902 July 4, American Economist, volume 30, number 1, page 10:
- A great many Democrats fear that their next national convention will also be a blunderfest.—Cleveland “Leader.”
- 2010 July 8, Taylor Kingston, “Re: A weird game in Megabase 2010”, in rec.games.chess.misc[1] (Usenet):
- ChessBase has the same header information for both games, that the games were played at USSR teach championship. Obviously the 55-move game is the real one; the 9-move blunderfest would seem to be either (A) a series of ridiculous typos by an operator entering games, or (B) a composed joke that somehow got into the database.
- 2012 January 22, Mark Steese, “Re: Forgiveness only goes so far”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams[2] (Usenet):
- So far, the blunderfest of the Republican challengers has been playing out like a variation on the 1996 election - not coincidentally, that was the last time a Republican challenger ran against an incumbent Democratic president.