Bungle: Definition and part of speech

Bungle

  1. n. A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.
  2. v. i. To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
  3. v. t. To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; — sometimes with up.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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