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▪ I. foozle, n.|ˈfuːz(ə)l|
[Connected with next vb.; the exact relation of the two words is uncertain.]
1. One who is ‘behind the times’, a fogy. (See also quot. 1889.)
1860Thackeray Round. Papers, Chalk-mark 115 Have we not almost all learnt these expressions of old foozles? 1889Barrère & Leland Slang, Foozle (American), a man who is easily humbugged, a fool.
2. Golf. [from the vb.] A ‘foozling’ stroke.
1890Hutchinson Golf (Badm. Libr.) 124 On the very rare occasions on which he made a foozle. 1891A. Lang in Longm. Mag. Apr. 688 A ‘carry’ of a quarter of a mile would be a mere ‘foozle’ to him.
▪ II. foozle, v.|ˈfuːz(ə)l|
[Cf. Ger. dial. fuseln, variously meaning ‘to work hurriedly and badly’, ‘to work slowly’ (Grimm).]
1. intr. To waste one's time, to fool.
1857[see foozling ppl. a.]. 1893in Stand. Dict.
2. trans. To do clumsily, ‘make a mess of’; to bungle (a stroke, etc.). Golf and slang. Also absol.
1892Daily News 14 Jan. 5/1 You ‘will’ your opponent to foozle his tee shot. 1894Ibid. 18 Oct. 5/1 Had he taken to golf, he..might be living and foozling yet. 1894Field 9 June 816/1, I have seen a man, a practised shot, foozle all his overhead rocketers with 30 in. barrels.
Hence ˈfoozling ppl. a., in quot. foolish, ‘fooling’. Also ˈfoozler, one who foozles, a bungler.
1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. iii. (1871) 264 Let's..have no more of his foozling bird's nesting. 1896Clarion 1 Feb. 40/5 A person who ‘mulls’ his stroke is said to be a ‘foozler’. |