transitive. To spoil (a piece of work, etc.) through lack of skill or care; to carry out (a task) incompetently; to bungle. In later use also with up.

transitive. To do or make in a clumsy or unskilful manner; formerly often with up, out. Now, usually, To spoil by unskilful workmanship. Cf. botch…

transitive. To handle roughly or clumsily, to maul; to mix up in confusion, jumble. Also with together, up. Also figurative. Obsolete (English reg…

transitive. To bungle or mismanage (an undertaking, etc.); to deal ineptly or incompetently with.

transitive. figurative. To muddle or make a mess of (words, speech, or meaning).

transitive. Originally Scottish and English regional (northern). To carry out (a task) clumsily, incompetently, or with many careless mistakes…

intransitive. Scottish. To bungle, make a mess of. Now rare.

transitive. To damage, ruin, spoil, botch; to destroy, put an end to; = to fuck up 1a at phrasal verbs 1. Also (chiefly in passive): to put into…

transitive. To mismanage, make a blunder in.

A muddle, a mess. Chiefly in to make a mull of.

transitive. To ruin, spoil, mess up; to botch. Frequently with up.

transitive. To make a mess of; to disorder, make dirty or untidy; to cause to be spoiled by inept handling; to muddle, mishandle. Now usually with up…

to make a mess of: (a) to bungle or badly mishandle (an undertaking); (b) to put into a disordered, dirty, or otherwise imperfect state.

To bungle, make a mess of (something).

transitive. To spoil the appearance, quality, etc., of; to make untidy or disordered, to make a mess of; to spoil, to ruin, to bungle. In quot…

transitive. To miss or bungle (a shot); gen. to bungle, make a mess of. Also absol.

to make balls of: to bungle, make a mess of; = to make a balls of at balls, n. Obsolete.

transitive and intransitive. To perform (a shot) badly (sometimes spec.: see quot. 1897). Also in extended use: to make a mess of (something)…

transitive. To do clumsily, ‘make a mess of’; to bungle (a stroke, etc.). Golf and slang. Also absol.

transitive. To make a mess of, ruin; to botch, bungle. Frequently with up. Also occasionally intransitive. Cf. bollock, n. 4b.

Slang. To bungle (esp. a stroke or movement in games); to make a mistake; to fail (an examination). (Cf. duff, v.3)

to make a muck of: to do (something) badly; to handle incompetently; to spoil or bungle. Cf. to make a mess of at mess, n.1 3c.

intransitive and transitive. To make a mistake, to bungle or botch (something); spec. in Sport, to mishandle or fumble (the ball), esp. in taking a…

slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). to ball up. transitive. To ruin; to make a mess of. Cf. balls, v.

transitive. U.S. slang. To make a mess of, to ruin; to confuse; to interfere with. Usually with up. Now rare.

transitive. To make a mess of (an undertaking); to mishandle, to bungle. Now somewhat rare.

A jumbled mixture of incongruous things; a jumble, muddle; a mess. Frequently in to make a hash of: to make jumbled or muddled in attempting to…

gen. transitive. To make a mess of, to bungle (something); (Theatre) to confuse or forget (one's lines); to miss (a cue). Also with it: to make a…

transitive. To botch, bungle. Also intransitive. Hence as n., something badly or clumsily performed; a slip-up.

colloquial. to make a hat of: to make a mess of; to mismanage; to spoil. rare.

transitive. North American slang. to ass up: to mess up; to botch, to bungle. Also intransitive. Cf. to arse up at arse, v. 2, to cock up 3a at cock…

slang. To spoil, to mess up. Const. up. Also loused-up adj. originally U.S.

transitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). To spoil, ruin, mess up. Also: to cause emotional or psychological harm to (a person); to…

To lose or bungle (an opportunity, etc.); to mishandle (a situation); to ruin, spoil. Frequently with it. slang (originally U.S.).

colloquial (chiefly U.S.). Originally U.S. Military slang. transitive. To ruin or spoil (something); to mess up, botch, bungle. Also (esp. in…

transitive and intransitive. slang. Used as a euphemistic alternative to fuck, v. (in various senses).

transitive. To make a mess of, ruin. Frequently with up. Also intransitive: to blunder.

Irish English. to make a hames of: to do (something) very badly or ineptly; to make a mess of.

transitive. to arse up: to mess up; to botch, to bungle. Also intransitive. Cf. to ass up at ass, v. 3, to cock up 3a at cock, v.1 phrasal verbs.

transitive. To damage; to ruin, spoil, mess up; to botch.

transitive. Originally: to condemn as a dork. Later more generally: to treat badly or unfairly, to mess (a person) around; (also) to botch, to mess…

transitive. To make a mess of (something); to ruin, botch, bungle. Chiefly with up. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. To spoil (something) through lack of skill or care; to carry out (a task) incompetently; to bungle. Also with up. Cf. earlier bodging, n.1…