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Definition: Fiasco |
FiascoNoun1. A sudden and violent collapse. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fiasco" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Etymology: Fiasco \Fi*as"co\, noun; plural Fiascoes. [Italian]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A straw-covered wine bottle having a round bottom and a long neck and holding about 2 litres. Used in Tuscany(Italy). Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Fiasco A failure, a mull. In Italy they cry Ol , ol , fiasco! to an unpopular singer. This word, common in France and Germany, is employed as the opposite of furore. The history of the word is as follows: - In making Venetian glass, if the slightest flaw is detected, the glass-blower turns the article into a fiasco - that is, a common flask. A gentleman from North America (G. Fox, "the Modern Bathylus") furnishes me with the following anecdote: "There was once a clever harlequin of Florence named Dominico Biancolelli, noted for his comic harangues. He was wont to improvise upon whatever article he held in his hand. One night he appeared holding a flask (flasco; but failing to extract any humour whatsoever from his subject he said. `It is thy fault fiasco,' and dashed the flask on the ground. After that a failure was commonly called in Florence a `fiasco'." To me it appears incredible that a clever improvisator could draw no matter from an empty bottle, apparently a subject rife with matter. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Russian (pizdetc ). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FIASCO | Greek | νταμιτζάνα | Food & Agriculture |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: FiascoSynonym: debacle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Failure | Blunder; (mistake); fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip, trip, stumble, claudication, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas, b_vue, faute, lurch; botchery; (want of skill); scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fiasco |
| English words defined with "fiasco": balagan ♦ Fiascoes ♦ No go. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fiasco" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (abortion, failure, fiasco), French (bomb, bust, failure, failure to perform sex, fiasco, flop, frost, screw up, washout), Italian (failure, fiasco, flagon, flop, frost), Portuguese (abortion, boner, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flop, flunk, frost, washout), Romanian (abortion, failure, fiasco, naught, wash out), Spanish (failure, fiasco). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Fiesta Fiasco (1967) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Unlike the public relations fiasco surrounding the Rover sale, the Government has maintained relatively close contact with Ford throughout the planning process and the likely job losses have not come as any surprise. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Fiasco" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.13% of the time. "Fiasco" is used about 230 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.13% | 228 | 19,909 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.87% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 230 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "fiasco": be a fiasco. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fiasco | 26 |
bay fiasco pig | 6 |
farm fiasco | 4 |
facial fiasco | 3 |
johnny fiasco | 3 |
fiasco oscar renees | 2 |
wesley willis fiasco | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fiasco"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fiasko, dështim (abortion, anticlimax, bust, collapse, come down, crash, cropper, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fizzle, flash in the pan, flop, frost, frustration, licking, miscarriage, no go, reverse). (various references) | |
Arabic | فشل (balk, be failed, be unable to do, be unsuccessful, come to nothing, cower, defeat, dud, fail, failure, fizzle out, flop, frustration, go awry, go wrong, lose courage, lose ground, lose heart, make a hash of it, miscarry, miss, miss fire, miss the mark, torpedo, trip up, unsuccess, washout), خيبة (discomfiture, failure), إخفاق تام. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фиаско (bathos, dead frost, flash in the pan, lash up), неуспех (baffle, down, failure, fizzle, miscarriage, mishap, repulse, reverse, slip up, unsuccess). (various references) | |
Czech | fiasko (disaster, failure, flop, squib, wash out, washout). (various references) | |
Danish | chiantiflaske. (various references) | |
Dutch | fiasco (abortion, failure), flop (abortion, failure), echec (abortion, failure), debâcle (abortion, decay, failure). (various references) | |
Esperanto | fiasko (abortion, failure). (various references) | |
Faeroese | miseydna (abortion, failure). (various references) | |
Finnish | fiasko (failure), fiasco, Chiantipullo. (various references) | |
French | fiasque, fiasco, échec. (various references) | |
German | fiasko (abortion, failure, fizzling). (various references) | |
Greek | φιάσκο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | כשלון מחפיר, כשלון (abortion, downfall, fail, failure, stumbling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fiaskó (wash-out), kudarc (abortion, beating, bust, defeat, discomfiture, failure, fizzle, kick in the pants, miscarriage, repulse, set-back, squib, throw back). (various references) | |
Indonesian | fiasko. (various references) | |
Italian | fiasco (failure, flagon, flop, frost). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "餅 (collapse, failure, rice-cake painting, something of little value). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がべい (collapse, failure, rice-cake painting, something of little value), がへい (collapse, failure, rice-cake painting, something of little value). (various references) | |
Manx | brock (botch, bungle, cock-up, hash, muddle, refuse, remains; badger, slip up, wastage). (various references) | |
Papiamen | frakaso (abortion, failure). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iascofay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fiasco (abortion, boner, failure, fizzle, flop, flunk, frost, washout). (various references) | |
Romanian | fiasco (abortion, failure, naught, wash out), eşec (abortion, check, defeat, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fizzle, flop, lame duck, miscarriage, naught, rebuff, repulsion, set back, wash out), chix (flop). (various references) | |
Russian | фиаско (dead frost, frost), неудача (abortion, adverseness, bad, bad luck, crab, down, dud, fail, failing, failure, hard luck, hoodoo, ill fortune, ill success, ill-luck, mischance, misfortune, mishap, no go, rebuff, reverse, rot, setback, washout), провал (failing, failure, frost, plough, plow, pluck, rot). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fijasko (cropper, fiascos, wash out). (various references) | |
Spanish | fiasco (failure), fracaso (abortion, breakdown, bust, defecation, departure, desperation, failing, failure, flop, flunk, miscarriage, Miss, trouble, Turkey, washout). (various references) | |
Swedish | fiasko (dud, failure, fizzle, flivver, flop, frost, muck up, muck-up, washout). (various references) | |
Thai | ความล้มเหลวอย่างมาก. (various references) | |
Turkish | fiyasko (bomb, bust, debacle, dud, failure, fizzle, flivver, frost, Turkey, washout), bozgun (beating, cropper, debacle, defeat, discomfiture, rout, stampede, upset). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фіаско, провал (defection, fail, failure, frost, washout), пляшка (bottle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Italian | 900-Modern | far fiasco. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fiasco": fiascoes, fiascos. (additional references) | |
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"Fiasco" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Biasco, fasc, Fasce, Fasch, fasci, feasko, Fedco, Fiaich, fiasko, Fiesca, fiesco, Fiocco, flasco, iasco, Ifsc, Riesco. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fiasco" (pronounced fēa"skō) |
| 3 | -s k ō | Cisco, disco, fresco, Roscoe. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-i-o-s" | |
-1 letter: coifs. | |
-2 letters: asci, ciao, coif, fico, fisc, foci, oafs, ocas, sofa. | |
-3 letters: ais, cis, cos, fas, ifs, oaf, oca, sac, sic. | |
-4 letters: ai, as, fa, if, is, of, os, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i-o-s" | |
+1 letter: fiascos. | |
+2 letters: bifocals, coalfish, factions, factious, factoids, fiascoes, focalise, folacins. | |
+3 letters: bonifaces, coalifies, facetious, factories, falchions, focaccias, focalised, focalises, focalizes, fractions, fractious, fugacious, officials, opacifies, trifocals. | |
+4 letters: affections, coalfields, coalfishes, cofinances, confidants, confiscate, factiously, factitious, factorials, factorizes, factorship, falconries, fallacious, fantastico, fasciation, fascinator, focalising, foliaceous, fornicates, fortalices, franchisor, francolins, fricandoes, furcations, infrasonic, magnificos, officiants, officiates, olfactions, picofarads. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Abbreviations | 13. Acronyms 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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