foozle

[ foo-zuhl ]
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verb (used with or without object),foo·zled, foo·zling.
  1. to bungle; play clumsily: to foozle a stroke in golf;to foozle on the last hole.

noun
  1. act of foozling, especially a bad stroke in golf.

Origin of foozle

1
First recorded in 1825–35; perhaps from dialectal German fuseln “to work badly, clumsily, hurriedly”

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How to use foozle in a sentence

  • One of them writes the thing; you simply keep them from foozling the phrases now and then.

    The Imitator | Percival Pollard

British Dictionary definitions for foozle

foozle

/ (ˈfuːzəl) mainly golf /


verb
  1. to bungle (a shot)

noun
  1. a bungled shot

Origin of foozle

1
C19: perhaps from German dialect fuseln to do slipshod work

Derived forms of foozle

  • foozler, noun

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