foozle
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foozle (third-person singular simple present foozles, present participle foozling, simple past and past participle foozled)
- To do something clumsily or awkwardly; to bungle.
- 1921 Oct. 2, "One-handed drivers menace to public," Vancouver Sun (Canada), p. 17 (retrieved 30 Aug. 2011):
- Every baseball fan is acquainted with the sarcastic reminder, "two hands are the fashion nowadays," often hurled at the infielder who foozles an attempt at a grandstand play in the form of a one-handed catch.
- c. 1900, F. Anstey, Humor and Fantasy:
- I wouldn't have trusted dear old Monty to break the death of a bluebottle without managing to foozle it somehow.
- 1921 Oct. 2, "One-handed drivers menace to public," Vancouver Sun (Canada), p. 17 (retrieved 30 Aug. 2011):
Noun
foozle (plural foozles)
- A fogey.
- 1838, Denis Ignatius Moriarty, The Wife Hunter:
- There is an old foozle of a lord, the earl of Ballyduff, who lives in London, and who is determined on nominating to his vacant borough
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- A mistaken shot in golf.
- 1923, Stacy Aumonier, Odd Fish:
- Even poor Mr. Lloyd George cannot go out of his front door, or make a foozle on the ninth green, without being snapshotted, sketched, and probably filmed.
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- (video games, slang) The final boss character in a game.
- 2005, William Abner, Gamer's Tome of Ultimate Wisdom 2006
- The original Ultima was a kill-the-foozle type of game where the goal was to destroy the Gem of Power, which was held by an evil wizard named Mondain.
- 2005, William Abner, Gamer's Tome of Ultimate Wisdom 2006
References
- “foozle” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
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