Definitions for fiascoes

fiascoes fi·as·co

Spelling: [fee-as-koh or especially for 2, -ah-skoh]
IPA: /fiˈæs koʊ or especially for 2, -ˈɑ skoʊ/

Fiascoes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 214 anagrams from letters in fiascoes (acefioss).

Definitions for fiascoes

noun

  1. a complete and ignominious failure.
  2. a round-bottomed glass flask for wine, especially Chianti, fitted with a woven, protective raffia basket that also enables the bottle to stand upright.

Origin of fiascoes

1850-55; Italian: literally, bottle Germanic (see flask1); sense “failure” from Italian phrase far fiasco to fail, literally, to make a bottle, idiom of u

Examples for fiascoes

This fiasco, due, I am told, to the jealous interference of the P.-L.

Better get a fiasco of Chianti ready—the old kind you have in the cellar.

The Marchese lunched here alone with us to-day, and it was a fiasco.

Her first real failure, a fiasco—she really deserved a better fate.

The veteran political operative did realize the joy that national reporters took from the fiasco.

Remember the fiasco of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra?

After that fiasco in Ireland you must go somewhere, for a time at least, out of the way.

It was a fiasco, but were some of the players screwing up on purpose?

“It really came out of left field,” he says of the whole Donald Sterling fiasco.

The fiasco over Proposition 8, she notes, should have been a case for the Avengers, but they were now “obliterated.”

Word Value for fiascoes
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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