BUNGLE
Dictionary entry overview: What does bungle mean?
• BUNGLE (noun)
The noun BUNGLE has 1 sense:
1. an embarrassing mistake
Familiarity information: BUNGLE used as a noun is very rare.
• BUNGLE (verb)
The verb BUNGLE has 2 senses:
1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
2. spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly
Familiarity information: BUNGLE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BUNGLE (noun)
Meaning:
An embarrassing mistake
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
botch; blooper; blunder; boner; boo-boo; bungle; flub; foul-up; fuckup; bloomer; pratfall
Hypernyms ("bungle" is a kind of...):
error; fault; mistake (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bungle"):
bobble (the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball)
clanger (a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate)
howler (a glaring blunder)
faux pas; gaffe; gaucherie; slip; solecism (a socially awkward or tactless act)
fluff (a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines))
fumble; muff ((sports) dropping the ball)
bull (a serious and ludicrous blunder)
spectacle (a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase 'make a spectacle of' yourself)
snafu (an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up)
misstep; stumble; trip; trip-up (an unintentional but embarrassing blunder)
• BUNGLE (verb)
Meaning:
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
muck up; bungle; flub; fluff; foul up; fuck up; louse up; mess up; mishandle; bumble; botch up; ball up; bobble; bodge; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bollocks up; botch; spoil; muff; screw up; fumble; blow
Context examples:
I botched the dinner and we had to eat out / the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
Hypernyms (to "bungle" is one way to...):
fail; go wrong; miscarry (be unsuccessful)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Context example:
I bungled it!
Hypernyms (to "bungle" is one way to...):
act; behave; do (behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
