bungle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to carry out clumsily or incompetently; a botched job

   The crew bungled the rescue and lost precious time.

Of obscure, probably imitative origin, perhaps of Scandinavian descent (compare Swedish dialect bangla 'to work ineffectually'). First attested in the 16th century.

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