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Foozle vs Foole - What's the difference?

foozle | foole |

As verbs the difference between foozle and foole

is that foozle is to do something clumsily or awkwardly; to bungle while foole is .

As nouns the difference between foozle and foole

is that foozle is a fogey while foole is .

foozle

English

Verb

(foozl)
  • To do something clumsily or awkwardly; to bungle.
  • * 1921 Oct. 2, " One-handed drivers menace to public," Vancouver Sun (Canada), p. 17 (retrieved 30 Aug. 2011):
  • Every baseball fan is acquainted with the sarcastic reminder, "two hands are the fashion nowadays," often hurled at the infielder who foozles an attempt at a grandstand play in the form of a one-handed catch.
  • * , Humor and Fantasy :
  • I wouldn't have trusted dear old Monty to break the death of a bluebottle without managing to foozle it somehow.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fogey.
  • * 1838 , Denis Ignatius Moriarty, The Wife Hunter :
  • There is an old foozle of a lord, the earl of Ballyduff, who lives in London, and who is determined on nominating to his vacant borough
  • A mistaken shot in golf
  • * 1923 , , Odd Fish :
  • Even poor Mr. Lloyd George cannot go out of his front door, or make a foozle on the ninth green, without being snapshotted, sketched, and probably filmed.

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    foole

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Verb

    (head)