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foozle

foozle verb: to do (something) awkwardly or clumsily; to bungle.

Verb

foozle (third-person singular simple present foozles, present participle foozling, simple past and past participle foozled)

  1. (transitive) To do (something) awkwardly or clumsily; to bungle.
    • I wouldn't have trusted dear old Monty to break the death of a bluebottle without managing to foozle it somehow.c. 1900, F. Anstey, Humor and Fantasy
    • Every baseball fan is acquainted with the sarcastic reminder, "two hands are the fashion nowadays," often hurled at the infielder who foozles an attempt at a grandstand play in the form of a one-handed catch.1921 October 2, “One-handed drivers menace to public”, in Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, B.C., page 17
  2. (intransitive) To act awkwardly or clumsily.
    • An aunt is always a jocular subject. If a man foozles at golf, he does not say, 'Oh, my cousin, my brother, or my grandfather!' He says, 'Oh, my aunt!' Possibly, general, the Persian is equally deficient in the materteral instinct.1900 October, Max Pemberton, “Pro Patria. [Chapter] XVI.”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume XXIV, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Frank A[ndrew] Munsey, […], →OCLC, page 79, column 1

Noun

foozle (plural foozles)

  1. A fogey.
    • There is an old foozle of a lord, the earl of Ballyduff, who lives in London, and who is determined on nominating to his vacant borough1838, Denis Ignatius Moriarty, The Wife Hunter
  2. A mistaken shot in golf.
    • Even poor Mr. Lloyd George cannot go out of his front door, or make a foozle on the ninth green, without being snapshotted, sketched, and probably filmed.1923, Stacy Aumonier, Odd Fish
  3. (slang) A cliché final boss that only exists to act as the final problem before players can complete a game.
    • The original Ultima was a kill-the-foozle type of game where the goal was to destroy the Gem of Power, which was held by an evil wizard named Mondain.2005, William Abner, Gamer’s Tome of Ultimate Wisdom 2006

foozle meaning in Tamil

foozle in Tamil

முறைகேடாக, திறமையின்றி, தவறாக நிருவாகித்தல் அல்லது விளையாடுதல்

Forms of foozle

Verb
third-person singular presentfoozles
present participlefoozling
past participlefoozled
pastfoozled
Noun
pluralfoozles

Words formed from foozle

Questions about foozle

What does foozle mean?
Foozle means to do (something) awkwardly or clumsily; to bungle.
What is foozle in Tamil?
Foozle in Tamil is முறைகேடாக, திறமையின்றி, தவறாக நிருவாகித்தல் அல்லது விளையாடுதல். See Foozle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is foozle?
Foozle can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of foozle?
The past tense of foozle is foozled.

Words near foozle in the dictionary

  1. footwriting
  2. footy
  3. footy tipping
  4. fooyoung
  5. fooyung
  6. foozle
  7. foozled
  8. foozler
  9. foozlers
  10. foozles
  11. foozling

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: foozle (page history and authors); foozle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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