Building a Chinese-English wordnet for translingual applications

: Lists "foul-up" and "flub" as top synonyms for an act of wrongdoing or an embarrassing mistake.

: Uses these strings of words to provide comprehensive definitions for slang or informal terms for failure.

These terms often appear together in entries for words like "blunder," or "botch" within resources such as:

Because these words are frequently clustered together in dictionary metadata, searching for them often leads to technical or linguistic articles about word associations, such as studies on .

: Often groups these terms (blunder, blooper, bungle, foul-up, flub) to define various types of errors.