Bungle vs Bugle - What's the difference?
bungle | bugle |
A botched or incompetently handled situation.
* 1888 , Henry Lawson, "".
*:The Soudan bungle was born partly of sentimental loyalty and partly of the aforementioned jealousy existing between the colonies, and now at a time when the colonies should club closer together our Government is doing all they can to widen the breach by trying to pass a bill enabling New South Wales to monopolise the name “Australia”.
To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.
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* 1853 , Charles Dickens, Bleak House , .
*:His hand shakes, he is nervous, and it falls off. “Would any one believe this?” says he, catching it as it drops and looking round. “I am so out of sorts that I bungle at an easy job like this!”
* Byron
A horn used by hunters.
(music) a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
An often-cultivated plant in the family Lamiaceae.
Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end.
To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle
a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
* 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 207.
As verbs the difference between bungle and bugle
is that bungle is to botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly while bugle is .As a noun bungle
is a botched or incompetently handled situation.bungle
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en-verb)Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- There was a whiff of farce about Southampton’s second goal too, as, six minutes later, a bungled Sunderland pass ricocheted off Will Buckley’s backside to the feet of Dusan Tadic.
- I always had an idea that it would be bungled .
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*bugle
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Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (shaped like a bugle) cone, funnelHypernyms
* musical instrumentDerived terms
* buglerCoordinate terms
* trumpetVerb
(bugl)Synonyms
* trumpetEtymology 2
.Noun
(en noun)- With the exception of a woman in a black silk dress with bugles who, incredible as it may seem, had ordered cocoa and sparkling limado simultaneously and was washing down a meal of Cambridge sausages and pastry with alternate draughts of both liquids, the place was empty.