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(bŭng'gl), v. i. [imp. & p. p. BUNGLED; p. pr. & vb. n. BUNGLING.] [Bungle may be a diminutive form of Prov. Ger. bungen, to beat, bang; O. Sw. bunga. Cf. Scot. bung, the instep of a shoe.] To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
v. t. To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch;—sometimes with up.
Other devils, that suggest by treasons, Do botch and bungle up damnation With patches, colors, and with forms, being fetched From glistening semblances of piety. Shak.
I always had an idea that it [the rising at Ravenna] would be bungled. Byron.
n. A clumsy performance; a botch; inaccuracy; gross blunder.
This opinion is further confuted by ... those errors and bungles which are committed, when the matter is inept and contumacious. Cudworth.