fiasco
nounEtymology
Borrowed from Italian fiasco (“bottle, flask”), from Late Latin flasca, flascō (“bottle, container”), from Frankish *flaskā (“bottle, flask”) from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“bottle”); see flask. “Failure” sense comes through French faire fiasco from Italian theatrical slang far fiasco (literally “to make a bottle”), of uncertain origin; perhaps from an expression fare il fiasco, meaning to play a game with the forfeit that the loser will buy the next bottle or round of drinks. Doublet of flacon, flagon, and flask.
- derived from faire fiasco
- derived from *flaskǭ✻
- derived from *flaskā✻
- derived from flasca
- borrowed from fiasco
Definitions
A sudden or unexpected failure.
- The event turned into a complete fiasco when the power went out.
- His speech was a fiasco that left the audience confused.
A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fiasco. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA