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▪ I. bungling, vbl. n.|ˈbʌŋglɪŋ|
[f. bungle v.]
1. The action of the verb to bungle; unskilful or clumsy working or action.
1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 330 To prophane a thing So Sacred, with vile Bungling. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. 24 To believe that..the whole universe is meer bungling & blundring. 1845Ld. Campbell Chancellors (1857) V. cxvi. 290 Losing all patience at his bungling.
†2. ? Used (for the sake of rime) for bundling.
1593Barnes Elegies in Arb. Garner V. 412 The viper's youngling..can[not] endure the bongling Within the viper's belly.
▪ II. ˈbungling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That bungles; unskilful and clumsy in working.
1589Nashe in Greene Menaph. Ded. (Arb.) 12 Such bungling practitioners in principles. 1699Bentley Phal. Pref. 75 A Bungling Tinker, that makes two Holes, while he mends one. 1747Costard in Phil. Trans. XLIV. 483 Such Notions..demonstrate them to be very bungling Astronomers. 1875T. Hill True Ord. Studies 66 Danger of a bungling teacher's extinguishing the child's thirst for knowledge.
2. Of actions: Showing unskilfulness, clumsy.
1598Florio, Abbozzamento, a..bungling peece of worke. 1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. xi. xviii. (1678) 291 It is a shameful and bungling part to do more harm with your hand than the Iron [of an Arrow] hath done. 1773Burke Corr. (1844) I. 439 Done in an awkward bungling manner. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. App. 644 The bungling attempt of a compiler. |