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bun⋅gle

  [buhng-guhl] verb, -gled, -gling, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to do clumsily and awkwardly; botch: He bungled the job.
–verb (used without object)
2. to perform or work clumsily or inadequately: He is a fool who bungles consistently.
–noun
3. a bungling performance.
4. that which has been done clumsily or inadequately.
Origin:
1520–30; of uncert. orig.

Related forms:
bungler, noun
bun⋅gling⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. mismanage, muddle, spoil, ruin; foul up.
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bun·gle   (bŭng'gəl)   
v.   bun·gled, bun·gling, bun·gles

v.   intr.
To work or act ineptly or inefficiently.
v.   tr.
To handle badly; botch. See Synonyms at botch.
n.  A clumsy or inept performance; a botch: made a bungle of the case due to inexperience.

[Perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]
bun'gler n., bun'gling·ly adv.
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Word Origin & History

bungle 
1530, origin obscure, perhaps a mix of boggle and bumble, or more likely from a Scand. word akin to Sw. bangla "to work ineffectually," from O.Sw. bunga "to strike" (cf. Ger. Bengel "cudgel," also "rude fellow").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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