bungle

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There'll be a chance of getting that done if we elect a Democratic President in 1912 Well, sir," I replied, "if the bungle has been as bad as you think I certainly ought to be able to do the work to your satisfaction.

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  1. intransitive verb To work or act ineptly or inefficiently.
  2. transitive verb To handle badly; botch. See Synonyms at botch.
  3. noun A clumsy or inept performance; a botch: made a bungle of the case due to inexperience.

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  • She couldn't let the man die because of her bungle, and she was sure she could beat him to the fence. —  AHMM,September2008
  • I used to begin a story and purposely bungle, so that, in despair, he would take it up, and in rapid graphic sentences place the whole scene before us. —  BOOTS AND SADDLES: OR LIFE IN DAKOTA WITH GENERAL CUSTER
  • An email from Shots to NESN spokesperson Gary Roy on Sunday night seeking clarification on the bungle was not immediately returned. —  Sports Media News
  • Exclusive: It's January .. and Easter Eggs are already on sale in Tesco I thought I was dying for six years because of NHS bungle, reveals Coronation Street star Ken Cope Fury after Linda Lusardi rings 999 to ask cops to get her through traffic jam —  The Daily Record - Home
  • Bungle, bungle, bungle - and not just dealing with some Miguel Lopez. —  Immigration Watch International
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  1. Perhaps of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. Prob. equivalent to *bongle for bangle, freq. of bang, beat; cf. German dial. bungeln, strike, beat, freq. of bungen, strike; Swedish dial. bangla, work ineffectually, freq. of banka, variant bonka, bunka, strike, Old Swedish bunga, beat: see bang, bunch, bung, and cf. botch, bungle, which also goes back to an original sense ‘beat.’
  2. from bungle, v.
 

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