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Foozle

Foozle \Foo"zle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Foozled; p. pr. & vb. n. Foozling.] [Cf. G. fuseln to work badly or slowly.] To bungle; to manage awkwardly; to treat or play unskillfully; as, to foozle a stroke in golf.

She foozles all along the course.
--Century Mag.

Foozle

Foozle \Foo"zle\, n.

  1. A stupid fellow; a fogy. [Colloq.]

  2. Act of foozling; a bungling stroke, as in golf.

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foozle

n. 1 A fogey. 2 A mistaken shot in golf vb. To do something clumsily or awkwardly; to bungle.

Usage examples of "foozle".

Not only did he foozle his drive badly, but his face was worried, and his forehead creased in a big frown.

From first to last this lad didn't foozle a single drive, and his approach-putting has to be seen to be believed.

Their language, when they foozled, was gently regretful rather than sulphurous.

There was an obbligato passage in Nelle's first song which she foozled on every attempt.

There ought not to be a single able-bodied infant in the British Isles who has not foozled a drive.

And she just looked at me with that foozled expression she got when her mind was playing tricks on her … but I could see the devil dancin in her eyes, and I knew well enough who the trick had been played on that time.

However, the chances were more in favor of my foozling the long throw than that Nobs would fall down in his part if I gave him the chance.