bungle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble.

   “I always had an idea that it would be bungled; but was willing to hope, and am still so. Whatever I can do by money, means, or person, I will venture freely for their freedom; and have so repeated to them (some of the Chiefs here) half an hour ago.”

2. fiil To act or work incompetently; to fumble.

   “[T]he trooper fails to fasten the brooch. 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!"”

3. isim A botched or incompetently handled action or situation; a blunder.

   “The second figure [of the dance] commenced, and I made a sad bungle; so I did of the third, and fourth, and fifth, for I never had danced a cotillon.”