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Elmo vs Bungle - What's the difference?

elmo | bungle |

As a proper noun elmo

is .

As a noun bungle is

a botched or incompetently handled situation.

As a verb bungle is

to botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.

elmo

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1996 (Chay Yew), A Language of Their Own , Two Plays, Grove/Atlantic Inc.:
  • MING. About his name. Oscar. Asians always pick out the most curious and most discarded English names from books and TV. Like Cornelius. Elmo . Wellington.
  • A city in Missouri.
  • An unincorporated community in Texas.
  • A town in Utah.
  • An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
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    bungle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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”.
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.
  • * 2014 , , " 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.
  • * 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
  • I always had an idea that it would be bungled .

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