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Protrude vs Bungle - What's the difference?

protrude | bungle |

As verbs the difference between protrude and bungle

is that protrude is to extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out while bungle is to botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.

As a noun bungle is

a botched or incompetently handled situation.

protrude

English

Verb

(protrud)
  • To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
  • *
    • Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes .
  • To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
    • (John Locke)
  • To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.
  • * Thomson
    • When Spring protrudes the bursting gems.

    Derived terms

    * protrudable * protrudent * protrusible * protrusion

    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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