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bungles

bungles is the plural of bungle.

bungles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bungle.

Meaning of bungle

Noun

bungle (plural bungles)

  1. A botched or incompetently handled action or situation; a blunder.
    • VVherefore this Religious affection vvhich nature has implanted, and as ſtrongly rooted in Man as the feare of death or the love of vvomen, vvould be the moſt enormous ſlip or bungle ſhe could commit, ſo that ſhe vvould ſo ſhamefully faile in the laſt Act, in this contrivance of the nature of Man...1653, Henry More, chapter XII, in An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC, book II...
    Synonyms:
    botch, muddle

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Questions about bungles

What is bungles the plural of?
Bungles is the plural of bungle.

Words near bungles in the dictionary

  1. Bungku
  2. bungle
  3. bungled
  4. bungler
  5. bunglers
  6. bungles
  7. bunglesome
  8. bungling
  9. bunglingly
  10. bunglings
  11. bungmaker

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