foozling

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
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

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