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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.
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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

Foo"zle\, n. 1. A stupid fellow; a fogy. [Colloq.]

2. Act of foozling; a bungling stroke, as in golf.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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