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foozle

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foo⋅zle

  [foo-zuhl] verb, -zled, -zling, noun
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–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
1. to bungle; play clumsily: to foozle a stroke in golf; to foozle on the last hole.
–noun
2. act of foozling, esp. a bad stroke in golf.
Origin:
1825–35; perh. < dial. G fuseln to work badly, clumsily, hurriedly
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foo·zle   (fōō'zəl)   
tr.v.   foo·zled, foo·zling, foo·zles
To manage clumsily; bungle.
n.  The act of bungling, especially a poor stroke in golf.

[Perhaps from German dialectal fuseln, to work poorly or slowly.]
foo'zler n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
foozle [ˈfuzlæ]

  1. n.
    an error; a messed up task. : What a stupid foozle!
  2. tv.
    to mess something up; to bungle something. (See also foozlified.) : Who foozled the copying machine?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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