fiasco
Plural: fiaschi, fiasci, fiascoes, fiascos
Noun
- A complete and utter failure, often humiliating.
- A straw-covered bottle, typically for Chianti wine.
- a sudden and violent collapse
- A sudden or unexpected failure.
- A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
- A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.
Examples
- Forgetting to use his ’Q’ on the triple letter was a complete FIASCO.
- He played FIASCO, envisioning a celebratory bottle after his high-scoring turn.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 11
fiasco: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfiasco: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fiasco: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary