Bungle

Definition: Bungle

Bungle

Noun

1. An embarrassing mistake.

Verb

1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.

2. Spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly; "I bungled it!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bungle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Bungle

Unskillfulness

Verb: be unskillful; Adjective: not see an inch beyond one's nose; blunder, bungle, boggle, fumble, botch, bitch, flounder, stumble, trip; hobble; put one's foot in it; make a mess of, make hash of, make sad work of; overshoot the mark.

Crosswords: Bungle

Max, I don't know what I'm going to do about you. You bungle assignment after assignment (Get Smart; writing credit: Shinichi Sekizawa; Futaro Yamada)

Jungle Bungle (1963)

Bungle Uncle (1962)

Bungalow Bungle (1915)

Jungle Bungle (1998)

The Bungle Brother (1978)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bungle in the Jungle (reference)

• Dr. Mouse, Bungle Jungle Doctor (Golden Easy Reader, Level 2, Grades 1-2) (reference)

• Farmer Bungle Forgets (reference)

• Jungle Bungle [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

• Reminiscences of a Bungle, by One of the Bunglers: And Two Other Northwest Rebellion Diaries (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Danger Mouse: Lord of the Bungle (Vol. 5) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Mr. Bungle (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

bëj shkel-e-shko (fumble, scamp, skimp), shkel e shko, qullos (Bumble, dub), djallos (dub). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تلف (blight, burn, consume, corrode, damage, destroy, deteriorate, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, impair, mangle, molder, moulder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoil, spoilage, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), ‏عمل غير متقن (boggle, botch, sloppy work), ‏عمل بغير إتقان (foozle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

каша (hash, lash up, mash, mess, mess up, mush, pap), гаф (boob, faux pas, floater, gaff, gaffe, infelicity, slip, snafu), върша нещо несръчно, неумело (lamely), нескопосана работа, бъркотия (clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disturbance, dust, farrago, fuss, hash, havoc, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry-scurry, imbroglio, involution, involvement, jumble, jungle, maze, melee, mess, mess up, mishmash, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, patchwork, pell mell, razzle, razzle-dazzle, rout, salmagundi, skein, snafu, tangle, tumble, uproar, upset, welter), постъпвам нетактично, изпортвам (balk, boss, fluff, foozle, foul up, fumble). (various references)

Chinese 

搞糟 (Bungled, Bungling). (various references)

Czech

zvorat (goof up), zpackat (bitch up, Bumble, foul up, goof up, muff, screw up). (various references)

Dutch

afraffelen (scamp one's work). (various references)

Esperanto

fuŝi (botch, screw up, spoil), fini fuŝrapide (scamp one's work). (various references)

Faeroese

bongla (botch, screw up, spoil), klombra (botch, screw up, spoil), fesja (botch, screw up, spoil). (various references)

Finnish

hutiloida (botch, do . . carelessly, scampt, screw up, spoil). (various references)

French

bousiller, travailler sans compétence, rater, gâcher. (various references)

German

verpfuschen (botch, fault, hash up, mess up, muck up, ruin, spoil, to botch, to bungle), vermasseln (botch, fluff, foozle, goof, hash up, louse up, make a mess, mess up, muck up, muddle, muff, queer, ruin, screw up, to bungle, to foozle), pfuschen (botch, come unstuck, fudge, scamp, screw up, slip up, spoil). (various references)

Greek 

κάμνω ατεχνώσ, κακοφτιάχνω (botch). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקלקל (blight, break down, foul up, louse, muff, spoil, vitiate). (various references)

Hungarian

kontármunka (botch, botchery, tinker), kontár munka, elfuserál (foozle, muddle, screw up, to bitch, to boss, to botch, to make a mess of sg, to mess up, to muck up, to muddle up, to mull, to muss, to slobber), ügyetlenség (awkwardness, bumbling, clumsiness, gaffe, left-handedness). (various references)

Italian

pasticcio (botch, fix, jam, mess, pasty, Patty, pie, trouble), pasticciare (goof, hash, make a mess, mess up, Mull), guazzabuglio (gallimaufry, hotchpotch, jumble, mixture, muddle), abborracciare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

へぼ医者 (all over, being sticky, bloody fool!, blunder, chattering, clinging, closely, empty, frivolous, gaffe, gooey, hard, hungry, messy, must, non-stop talking, prattling, quack doctor, shall, should, speaking indiscreetly, squished flat, sticky, thickly, to commit a blunder), 不出来 (bad job, poor workmanship). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふでき (bad job, poor workmanship), へま (blunder, gaffe). (various references)

Manx

murtaghey (fumble, work, work with poor tool), lutchey (blunder, blundering, loubbering, lout; bungling, slouch, slouching), jannoo brock jeh (botch, fumble, mismanage, spoil, waste, waste food), brockey (muck, muddle, waste, waste as food), brock (botch, cock-up, fiasco, hash, muddle, refuse, remains; badger, slip up, wastage). (various references)

Pig Latin

unglebay.(various references)

Portuguese

borrar (bedaub, blob, blot, blue-pencil, botch, daub, ink, slubber, smudge, spoil), trabalharmal (botch, spoil), tolice (applesauce, barney, blunder, bosh, fiddle-de-dee, flapdoodle, folly, foolery, foolishness, guff, gup, howler, ineptitude, ineptness, infelicity, moonshine, mush, nonsense, piffle, rot, silliness, simplicity, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, twaddle, unreason), fazer� spressas (botch, spoil), fazer mal (do harm, hurt), estrague, estragar (blunder, botch, deface, deteriorate, dilapidate, disconcert, foul up, impair, injure, mar, mess, muck, muddle, overset, poison, queer, rub, screw up, spoil), confusão (baffle, bedlam, bother, clutter, confusion, daze, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disturbance, donnybrook, embroilment, entanglement, fog, foul-up, fuddle, intricacy, involution, involvement, jumble, kettle of fish, labyrinth, macaroni, maze, medley, mess, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix-up, moil, muddle, mull, muss, olio, pandemonium, pell-mell, perplexity, perturbation, pother, puddle, puzzle, ravel, rough-and-tumble, rout, shuffle, skein, to-do, tumble, turbidity, turmoil), confundir tudo. (various references)

Romanian

strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), rasoli, lucru de mântuialã (quickie), lucra prost (botch), lucra ca un cârpaci, lucra (cultivate, do, farm, function, labor, labour, operate, run, till, toil, work), cârpi (botch, cobble, darn, mend, patch up, piece, repair, spoil, stitch up, vamp, vamp up), cârpãci (botch, mess, mess up, muddle, patch up). (various references)

Russian 

ошибка (aberration, bust, error, failing, fallacy, fault, faux pas, gaffe, inaccuracy, lapse, misdeed, misstep, mistake, muff, slip, slip up, slipup, slip-up, stumble, trip), неумело (unskillfully, unworkmanlike), плохая работа. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zbrka (confusion, disarray, fuddle, helter-skelter, hugger mugger, imbroglio, jumble, macaronics, maze, mess, mishmash, muddle, muss, omnium gatherum, pell mell, welter), pobrkati (confuse, mistake, mix up, mull), loše raditi, grubo (hardly, harshly, rough, rough: in the rough, roughly), gruba izrada, greška (blooper, error, fallacy, foult, goof, lapse, lapsus, miscarriage, mistake, slip up, slipup, trip, wrong). (various references)

Spanish

hacer mal (do harm, feel hurt), estropear (bang up, batter, bedevil, blemish, chew out, chew up, cripple, crumple, damage, disable, distort, emasculate, foul up, get at, gum up, harm, hurt, knock out, lark about, lark around, maim, make a mess of, mangle, Mar, maul, mess up, muff, perish, pervert, put out of action, queer, ruin, spoil, strip, tamper, tear, tinker, wreck), embarullar, embarullador, chapucear (blunder, botch, botch up, dabble, fumble, scamp, skimp). (various references)

Swedish

förfuska (botch, mismanage). (various references)

Thai

พลา�". (various references)

Turkish

berbat etmek (ball up, bitch, bitch up, botch, bring to ruin, cast a cloud on smth., cloud, crab, fluff, make nonsense of, mess things up, mess up, piss on smth., play the deuce with, ruin, screw up, spoil, vitiate), beceriksizlik (awkwardness, clumsiness, fecklessness, foozle, gaucherie, inaptitude, incompetence, inefficacy, ineptitude, ineptness, lubberliness, muff, rudeness, unhandiness), becerememek (boggle, botch, bust, do badly, fail, goof, goof up, make sorry show, muddle, muff), yüzüne gözüne bulaştırmak (boggle, botch, crab, fluff, foozle, goof up, hash, hash up, make a hash of, make a mess of, make cock-up of smth., mess things up, mess up, muddle, scamp), karışıklık (bedlam, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), azdirmak (botch, screw up, spoil), acemice iş yapmak (muff), acemice iş. (various references)

Ukrainian

працювати невміло, погана робота (bodge), помилка (aberration, balk, bloomer, delusion, error, failing, fallacy, fault, inaccuracy, lapsus, misdeed, mistake, sin, slip, solecism, stumble, trip). (various references)

Vietnamese 

việc l� m vụng (botch), việc l� m cẩu thả việc l� m hỏng sự lộn xộn. (various references)

Welsh

bwn.glerwaith (botch), bwn.glera (botch), bustachu (buffet about), stompio (beat, botch, mess, pound), stomp (botch, mess, muddle). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bungle": bungled, bungler, bunglers, bungles, bunglesome. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bungle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bangla, banglee, bengel, Bengie, benglog, Bengue, Binulu, Bonjela, Bonola, brugnoli, bunge, bungen, bungie, Dungloe, fungle. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: blunge.

-1 letter: begun, bugle, bulge, lunge.

-2 letters: blue, bung, genu, glen, glue, lube, luge, lune, lung, unbe.

-3 letters: beg, bel, ben, bug, bun, eng, gel, gen, gnu, gul, gun, leg, leu, lug, neb, nub.

-4 letters: be, el, en, ne, nu, un.

+1 letter: blueing, blunged, blunger, blunges, bungled, bungler, bungles.

+2 letters: bludgeon, blueings, blungers, bunghole, bunglers, fungible.

+3 letters: befouling, beguiling, begulfing, belauding, bludgeons, bulleting, bungholes, busheling, fungibles, lumbering, unbelting.

+4 letters: beclouding, befuddling, bejumbling, bemuddling, bemuzzling, blubbering, bludgeoned, bluetongue, blundering, blustering, bucklering, bunglesome, bushelling, euglobulin, impugnable, inarguable, nebulising, nebulizing, rebuilding, redoubling, replumbing, slubbering, slumbering, subceiling, subleasing, subletting, unarguable.