Crossword clues for bungle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. bung
See Bang.] To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
Bungle \Bun"gle\, v. t. To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up.
I always had an idea that it would be bungled.
--Byron.
Bungle \Bun"gle\, n. A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.
Those errors and bungles which are committed.
--Cudworth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, origin obscure. OED suggests imitative; perhaps a mix of boggle and bumble, or more likely from a Scandinavian word akin to Swedish bangla "to work ineffectually," Old Swedish bunga "to strike" (related to German Bengel "cudgel," also "rude fellow"). Related: Bungled; bungling.
1650s, from bungle (v.).
Wiktionary
n. A botched or incompetently handled situation. vb. To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.
WordNet
v. 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, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]
spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly; "I bungled it!"
Wikipedia
Bungle may refer to:
- Bungle (Rainbow), a fictional children's television character
- The Glass Cat, also called Bungle, a fictional character from the Land of Oz books
- The Bungle Family, an American comic strip
- Mr. Bungle, an experimental rock/avant-garde metal band
- Bungle Bungle Range in the Purnululu National Park in northern Western Australia
Bungle is a character in the British children's television series Rainbow. He is a large brown furry bear and is played by various actors, but chiefly Stanley Bates. Bungle is inquisitive but also clumsy, and each show typically represents Bungle involved in a comic dispute with the other puppet characters, Zippy and George, with Geoffrey Hayes mediating. Bungle appears without clothes during the day, but puts pyjamas on to go to bed and has a towel round his waist after a bath.
Usage examples of "bungle".
A lot more Russian tanks are going to roll on through Germany if you bungle it now, and you will bungle it, you may depend upon that.
About two hundred and fifty kilometers drive south from the town is the Bungle Bungle range.
Would there be some ghastly bungle that would warn Goldfinger in time?
He sought for self-control with all the skill at his command, determined not to bungle things this time.
He brushed his mouth against hers, demanding nothing, apologizing yet again for the way he had bungled their first time together, pleading for a second chance.
Despite the blanket of propaganda, I think they sense too that Stalin and his brutal gang bungled the start of the war and almost lost it.
The world groaned as at an old joke, but Starr admired this bungling fool.
But even I am forced to admit that they are a ridiculous people, just as one must confess that the British are bungling, the Italians incompetent, the Americans neurotic, the Germans romantically savage, the Arabs vicious, the Russians barbaric, and the Dutch make cheese.
Poona, and when trouble is made, think you that the Dewan will thank us for the bungling of this?
Then she had been a naif, a country girl running away from the pain of a bungled marriage and a vacant home.
But he could not abide carelessness or a bungled job, and so the ninja had deserved the agony he had suffered.
Every day he took the same route, past the drunks bungling round the DHS emergency payout place in Upper Woburn Place, then the Kosovans washing car windscreens while their women begged at the corner of Upper Woburn Place and the Euston Road, after that Eversholt Street past Transformations then more drunks at the start of Camden High Street.
If I bungled the job, Spieler could watch Merryweather Enterprises sink, the albatross of a focusing ring around its neck.
Nabokov narrowly escaped being christened Victor by a bungling archpresbyter in a ceremony at 47 Morskaya.
Even toward the end of the night performance, no artiste let himself or herself look anything but sparkling and vivacious to the audience, and none of them bungled a single trick in any act.