Foozle

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

To do something clumsily or awkwardly; to bungle..

Definitions by Sense

1. To do something clumsily or awkwardly; to bungle.
2. A fogey.
3. A mistaken shot in golf.
4. (video games, slang) The final boss character in a game.

Example Sentences

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.

I wouldn't have trusted dear old Monty to break the death of a bluebottle without managing to foozle it somehow.

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

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.

The original Ultima was a kill-the-foozle type of game where the goal was to destroy the Gem of Power, which was held by an evil wizard named Mondain.

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• foozles
• foozling
• foozled

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