Bungles vs Burgles - What's the difference?
bungles | burgles |
(burgle)
(chiefly, British, NZ) to commit burglary.
:* {{quote-book
, year=1892
, year_published=2011
, edition=HTML
, editor=
, author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
, title=The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
, chapter=The Beryl Coronet
(UK, sports) To take the ball legally from an opposing player.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 18
, author=Ben Dirs
, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia
, work=BBC Sport
As verbs the difference between bungles and burgles
is that bungles is third-person singular of bungle while burgles is third-person singular of burgle.As a noun bungles
is plural of lang=en.burgles
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *burgle
English
Verb
(burgl)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Well, I hope to goodness the house won’t be burgled during the night. }}
citation, page= , passage=And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.}}
