Flap vs. Scandal — What's the Difference?

(of a bird) move (its wings) up and down when flying or preparing to fly

A scandal can be broadly defined as the strong social reactions of outrage, anger, or surprise, when accusations or rumours circulate or appear for some reason, regarding a person or persons who are perceived to have transgressed in some way. These reactions are usually noisy and may be conflicting, and they often have negative effects on the status and credibility of the person(s) or organisation involved.

Be agitated or panicky

A publicized incident that brings about disgrace or offends the moral sensibilities of society

A thin, flat piece of cloth, paper, metal, etc. that is hinged or attached on one side only and covers an opening or hangs down from something

A person, thing, or circumstance that causes or ought to cause disgrace or outrage

An act of flapping something, typically a wing or arm, up and down or from side to side

Damage to reputation or character caused by public disclosure of immoral or grossly improper behavior; disgrace.

A state of agitation; a panic

Talk that is damaging to one's character; malicious gossip.

A large broad mushroom.

An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.

A type of consonant produced by allowing the tip of the tongue to strike the palate very briefly.

Damage to one's reputation.

A projecting or hanging piece usually attached to something on one side and often intended to protect or cover

Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.

Either of the folded ends of a book jacket that fit inside the front and back covers.

(theology) Religious discredit; an act or behaviour which brings a religion into discredit.

A variable control surface on the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, used primarily to increase lift or drag.

(theology) Something which hinders acceptance of religious ideas or behaviour; a stumbling-block or offense.

(Medicine) A piece of tissue that has been partially detached and used in surgical grafting to fill an adjacent defect or cover the cut end of a bone after amputation.

Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.

The act of waving or fluttering

(obsolete) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.

The sound produced by this motion.

(obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.

(Linguistics) A sound articulated by a single, quick touch of the tongue against the teeth or alveolar ridge, as (t) in water. Also called tap1.

Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgrace.

(Informal) A commotion or disturbance

Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously.

(Archaic) A blow given with something flat; a slap.

Anything alleged in pleading which is impertinent, and is reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners.

To move (wings or arms, for example) up and down.

To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.

To cause to move or sway with a fluttering or waving motion

To scandalize; to offend.

To cause to strike against something

Disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people

To move wings or the arms up and down.

A disgraceful event

To fly by beating the air with the wings

To move or sway while fixed at one edge or corner; flutter

Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.

A hinged leaf.

(aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.

A side fin of a ray.

The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.

A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.

(phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.

(surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.

The labia, the vulva.

(obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).

(obsolete) A young prostitute.

(transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.

(intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.

Of a resource or network destination: to be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.

Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.

A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.

The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing.

A disease in the lips of horses.

A movable part of an airplane wing, used to increase lift or drag, especially when taking off or landing. used often in the plural.

To beat with a flap; to strike.

To move, as something broad and flaplike; as, to flap the wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat.

To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air.

To fall and hang like a flap, as the brim of a hat, or other broad thing.

Any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely;

An excited state of agitation;

The motion made by flapping up and down

A movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body

A movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag

Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion;

Move noisily;

Move with a thrashing motion;

Move with a flapping motion;

Make a fuss; be agitated

Pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds