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foozle
[ foo-zuhl ]
verb (used with or without object)
, foo·zled, foo·zling.
- to bungle; play clumsily:
to foozle a stroke in golf;
to foozle on the last hole.
noun
- act of foozling, especially a bad stroke in golf.
foozle
/ ˈfuːzəl /
verb
- to bungle (a shot)
noun
- a bungled shot
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Derived Forms
- ˈfoozler, noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of foozle1
First recorded in 1825–35; perhaps from dialectal German fuseln “to work badly, clumsily, hurriedly”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of foozle1
C19: perhaps from German dialect fuseln to do slipshod work
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Example Sentences
Because I thought you were such a respectable, harmless old foozle that you'd never do anything to deserve it.
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If I tried a trick out of turn, I might foozle and lose prestige.
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Xuriel apparently did know his job, for the King's ball continued to be as foozle-proof as the Marshal's mashie.
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He was a slow, putterin' kind of an ole foozle, but on the hull a putty decent citizen.
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The newspapers would denounce me as a treacherous liar—you fellows own or control or foozle them in one way and another.
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