[syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]
2. spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly;
- Example: "I bungled it!"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bungle \Bun"gle\, v. t.
To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; --
sometimes with up.
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I always had an idea that it would be bungled. --Byron.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bungle \Bun"gle\, n.
A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.
[1913 Webster]
Those errors and bungles which are committed.
--Cudworth.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bungle \Bun"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bungled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bungling.] [Prob. a diminutive from, akin to bang; cf.
Prov. G. bungen to beat, bang, OSw. bunga. See Bang.]
To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bungle
n 1: an embarrassing mistake [syn: blunder, blooper,
bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup,
flub, botch, boner, boo-boo]
v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and
we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult
passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge,
bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub,
screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle,
fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up,
bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up,
fuck up]
2: spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly; "I bungled it!"