Bungle vs Fumble - What's the difference?
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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
(intransitive) To idly touch or nervously handle
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(intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
* Fielding
To blunder uncertainly.
To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
* Chesterfield
* Wordsworth
(transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc.
To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
* Shakespeare
Bungle is a related term of fumble.
As nouns the difference between bungle and fumble
is that bungle is a botched or incompetently handled situation while fumble is (sports) a ball etc that has been dropped.As verbs the difference between bungle and fumble
is that bungle is to botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly while fumble is (intransitive) to idly touch or nervously handle.bungle
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(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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(fumbl)- Waiting for the interview, he fumbled with his tie.
- He fumbled the key into the lock.
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- He fumbled for his keys.
- He fumbled his way to the light-switch.
- Adams now began to fumble in his pockets.
- He fumbled through his prepared speech.
- to fumble for an excuse
- My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles .
- Alas! how he fumbles about the domains.
- I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers.