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Mangle vs Bungle - What's the difference?

mangle | bungle |

As verbs the difference between mangle and bungle

is that mangle is to change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc while bungle is to botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.

As nouns the difference between mangle and bungle

is that mangle is a hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry while bungle is a botched or incompetently handled situation.

mangle

English

(wikipedia mangle)

Verb

(mangl)
  • To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
  • * Milton
    • mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • when they are disposed to mangle a play or novel
  • (archaic) To wring laundry.
  • (computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
  • The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.

    • Derived terms

    * put through the mangle

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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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