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Variant of bungle

bungle Definition

bun·gle (buŋ′gəl)

transitive verb bungled -·gled, bungling -·gling

to spoil by clumsy work or action; botch

Etymology: < ? Swed bangla, to work ineffectually

intransitive verb

to do or make things badly or clumsily

noun

  1. a bungling, or clumsy, act
  2. a bungled piece of work

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bungler Synonyms

bungler

n.

fumbler, botcher, blunderer, flounderer, mismanager, muddler, spoiler, incompetent, numskull, featherbrain, harebrain, dolt, blockhead, scatterbrain, airhead, dunce, clod, ignoramus, idiot, duffer, addlebrain, gawk, donkey, marplot, butterfingers, lubber, bumbler, bonehead*, screw-up*, rattlehead*, clumsy oaf*, lummox*, bull in a china shop*, butcher*, schlemiel*, blunderhead*, klutz*, block*, muffer*, hacker*, looby*, stumblebum*, turkey*, doofus*; see also fool 1.

bungler Quotes

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

—Shaw, George Bernard

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing theagonies of the damned, but give hima littlemetal, a fewchemicals,somewireand twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

—Baker, Russell Wayne

Browse dictionary entries near bungler

  1. ‹ bungled
  2. ‹ bungle
  3. ‹ bunghole
  4. ‹ bungee cord
  5. ‹ bungalow
  6. ‹ bung
  7. ‹ Bundt
  8. ‹ bunds
  9. ‹ bundling
  10. ‹ bundler
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