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Definition: Bungler |
BunglerNoun1. Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bungler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonyms: BunglerSynonyms: blunderer (n), botcher (n), bumbler (n), butcher (n), fuckup (n), fumbler (n), sad sack (n), stumbler (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bungler | Noun: bungler; blunderer, blunderhead; marplot, fumbler, lubber, duffer, dauber, stick; bad hand, poor hand, poor shot; butterfingers. |
Unskillfulness | Bungler; fool. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bungler |
| Specialty definitions using "bungler": Balmérino. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | ||
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edmund Burke | Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. |
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| "Bungler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bungler" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "bungler": useless bungler. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "bungler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | punëtor i keq, kërpaç (botcher). (various references) | |
Arabic | عامل غير بارع (cobbler, tinker), العامل الأخرق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нескопосник (tinker), некадърник (dud, duffer, flop, incapable, lightweight, mutt, no good, sad sack, washout). (various references) | |
Czech | packal, hudlař, fušer (cowboy). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuhertaja (dauber), poropeukalo (ham-fisted). (various references) | |
French | bousilleur, saboteur, incompétent (bungling), gâcheur. (various references) | |
German | pfuscher (blunderer, botcher, tinker). (various references) | |
Greek | κακοτέχνησ (botcher), άτσαλοσ (clumsy), ατζαμήσ (clumsy, greenhorn). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kontár (amateurish, botch, cobbler, dabbler, duffer, scamper, spoiler, tinker, to slubber, unworkmanlike), fuser (gimp, lunk, lunkhead, scamper, slob, slubberer, spoiler, tinker), ügyetlen ember (bumpkin, butter-fingers, dildo, dropsy, gimp, numb hand, screw-up). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不器"者 , へばり付く (clumsy, drunk, greenhorn, poor hand, to be exhausted, to be worn out, to cling to, untrustworthy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぶきようしゃ, ぶきようもの, へぼ (clumsy, greenhorn, poor hand). (various references) | |
Manx | lutchynagh (blunderer, blunderhead, blundering, booby, bovine, bungling, dope, nincompoop, ninny), brockeyder (botcher, muddler). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unglerbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trapalhão (bumbling, clumsy, dabbler), pessoa desajeitada (misfit). (various references) | |
Romanian | lucrãtor prost (butcher, duffer, pedlar), cârpaci (botcher, cobbler, duffer). (various references) | |
Russian | плохой работник (botcher). (various references) | |
Scottish | bumailear. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | loš radnik (botcher), šeprtlja (dabbler, do nothing). (various references) | |
Spanish | chapucero (amateurish, bungling, clumsy). (various references) | |
Swedish | klåpare (blunderer, botcher, dabbler, dub, fumbler, muff, slob). (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้ที่ทำเสียหาย. (various references) | |
Turkish | beceriksiz kimse (duffer, fumbler, gawk), beceriksiz (awkward, bungling, clumsy, Duff, duffer, feckless, flat-footed, fumbling, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, helpless, impractical, inapt, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpert, left handed, lubber, maladroit, manque, ne'er do well, never-do-well, oaf, oafish, resourceless, rude, shiftless, slouch, unaccomplished, unhandy, unskilful, untalented), acemi (apprentice, beginner, callow, catechumen, clumsy, colt, cub, dabster, green, greenhorn, guiltless, half-baked, inept, inexperienced, inexperienced hand, inexpert, jackaroo, johnny-come-lately, learner, neophyte, new, novice, Prentice, punk, raw, recruit, runnynose, simple, stooge, strange, stranger, sucking, tenderfoot, tiro, trainee, tyro, unbaked, unfledged, unseasoned, unskilled, untrained, unversed, young, young in one's job). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | поганий працівник (botch, tinker). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thợ vụng. (various references) | |
Welsh | bwn.gler, stompiwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bungler": bunglers. (additional references) | |
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"Bungler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bangler, benglog, Biegler, blunger, bonger, bungalor, Burgler, Kunzler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bungler" (pronounced bu"nggler) |
| 4 | -ng g l er | angler, strangler, wangler. |
| 3 | -g l er | burglar, finagler, kegler, smuggler, straggler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: blunger. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-l-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: blunge, bugler, bulger, bungle, burgle, lunger. | |
-2 letters: begun, bluer, bugle, bulge, gluer, gruel, luger, lunge, ruble. | |
-3 letters: berg, blue, blur, bren, bung, burg, burl, burn, genu, glen, glue, grub, grue, lube, luge, lune, lung, lure, nurl, rube, rule, rune, rung, unbe, urge. | |
-4 letters: beg, bel, ben, bug, bun, bur, eng, erg, ern, gel, gen. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-l-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: blungers, bunglers. | |
+2 letters: lumbering. | |
+3 letters: blubbering, blundering, blustering, bucklering, inarguable, rebuilding, redoubling, replumbing, slubbering, slumbering, unarguable. | |
+4 letters: belabouring, beliquoring, belowground, burlesquing, furbelowing, subregional, umbrellaing, ungraspable, unignorable, unlimbering. | |
+5 letters: battleground, beglamouring, begrudgingly, beleaguering, blueprinting, blunderingly, blusteringly, butterflying, curveballing, elucubrating, neurobiology, nightclubber, overbuilding, republishing, unbridgeable, unforgivable, ungovernable, urbanologies. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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