Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to flub
Participle: flubbed
Gerund: flubbing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | flub |
| you | flub |
| he;she;it | flubs |
| we | flub |
| you | flub |
| they | flub |
Perfect
| I | have flubbed |
| you | have flubbed |
| he;she;it | has flubbed |
| we | have flubbed |
| you | have flubbed |
| they | have flubbed |
Past
| I | flubbed |
| you | flubbed |
| he;she;it | flubbed |
| we | flubbed |
| you | flubbed |
| they | flubbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had flubbed |
| you | had flubbed |
| he;she;it | had flubbed |
| we | had flubbed |
| you | had flubbed |
| they | had flubbed |
Future
| I | will flub |
| you | will flub |
| he;she;it | will flub |
| we | will flub |
| you | will flub |
| they | will flub |
Future Perfect
| I | will have flubbed |
| you | will have flubbed |
| he;she;it | will have flubbed |
| we | will have flubbed |
| you | will have flubbed |
| they | will have flubbed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | flub |
| you | flub |
| he;she;it | flub |
| we | flub |
| you | flub |
| they | flub |
Perfect
| I | have flubbed |
| you | have flubbed |
| he;she;it | have flubbed |
| we | have flubbed |
| you | have flubbed |
| they | have flubbed |
Imperfect
| I | flubbed |
| you | flubbed |
| he;she;it | flubbed |
| we | flubbed |
| you | flubbed |
| they | flubbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had flubbed |
| you | had flubbed |
| he;she;it | had flubbed |
| we | had flubbed |
| you | had flubbed |
| they | had flubbed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would flub |
| you | would flub |
| he;she;it | would flub |
| we | would flub |
| you | would flub |
| they | would flub |
Perfect
| I | would have flubbed |
| you | would have flubbed |
| he;she;it | would have flubbed |
| we | would have flubbed |
| you | would have flubbed |
| they | would have flubbed |
Imperative
| you | flub |
| we | Let's flub |
| you | flub |
Verbs conjugated like 'flub'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'flub'
blub,
club,
flob,
flux,
fub,
glub,
slub,
alum,
blab,
bleb,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Possibly suggested by fluff and flop. First appeared in the US as a verb c. 1924, and as a noun c. 1953.
Sample Sentences
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‘Stage fright? So? What are you babbling ′bout? You′re mad as a snake!’
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‘Ever since I was a kid. I was in the Christmas Pageant one year and flubbed my line.’
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‘What was your line?’
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‘I told you I flubbed it!’ he mouthed these words hysterically. [2003, Trevor Pearson, Living Strictly fore! Pleasure, pages 88–89:]
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The actor that detained her had one line in that particular scene and flubbed it. And then flubbed it again...and again. And again, all the while assuring the director and the crew that he ‘knew his lines’ and then flubbed them again. [2008, D. L. White, Acting For Film And Television, page 37:]
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But even after the film ended, Jackie left his audience happy by including outtakes during the end credits — but not outtakes of flubbed lines (as in Cannonball Run) ... outtakes of flubbed stunts (including some painful shots of the bar room brawl and clock-tower fall that go horribly wrong)! [2011, Ric Meyers, Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Book, page 129:]