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o manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up. I always had an idea that it would be bungled. Byron.

A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.

To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of. [Local, U. S.]

ce; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle. To leave no rubs nor botches in the work. Shak.

A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.

To bungle; to manage awkwardly; to treat or play unskillfully; as, to foozle a stroke in golf.

To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.] -- To go through with, to perform, as a calculation, to the end; to complete. -- To go to ground. (a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox. (b) To fall in battle. -- To go to naught (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or unavailling. -- To go under. (a) To set; -- said of t…

A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler. [Law.]