Word Meanings - BUNGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BUNGLE)

• Botch
• Patch
• cobble
• blunder
• clump
• disconcert
• spoil
• jumble
• mess
• bungle
• mar
• blacksmith
• Cobble
• botch
• clout
• Flounder
• Roll
• boggle
• wallow
• tumble
• piece

Related words: (words related to BUNGLE)

• BOGGLE
  1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth
• TUMBLERFUL
  As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• TUMBLE-DOWN
  Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• BUNGLER
  A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• BOGGLER
  One who boggles.
• BOTCHERY
  A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
• WALLOW
  1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak. 2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• COBBLER
  1. A mender of shoes. Addison. 2. A clumsy workman. Shak. 3. A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry. Cobbler fish , a marine fish of the Atlantic. The name alludes to its threadlike fin rays.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• FLOUNDER
  A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidæ, of many species. Note: The common English flounder is Pleuronectes flesus. There are several common American species used as food; as the smooth flounder ; the rough or winter flounder ; the summer flounder,
• COBBLE
  A fishing boat. See Coble.
• TUMBLEWEED
  Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.
• DISCONCERT
  1. To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy. 2. To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash. The embrace disconcerted
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• SPOIL
  1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• PINPATCH
  The common English periwinkle.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note: