Bungle - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈbʌŋɡl|  American pronunciation of the word bungle
Brit.  |ˈbʌŋɡ(ə)l|  British pronunciation of the word bungle

noun

- an embarrassing mistake (syn: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, flub, foul-up, pratfall)

verb

- make a mess of, destroy or ruin (syn: ball up, blow, bodge, bollocks, botch, bumble, flub, fluff, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muff, screw up, spoil)
- spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly
I bungled it!

Extra examples

The government bungled badly in planning the campaign.

...bungled the job the first time she tried to do it...

Very likely Luther bungled in his arguments.

The whole police operation was bungled.

I bungled it!

...leave it to that blunderbuss to bungle a job that a child could do...

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: bungle
he/she/it: bungles
present participle: bungling
past tense: bungled
past participle: bungled
noun
singular: bungle
plural: bungles
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