bungle
Other forms: bungling; bungled; bungles
Saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, dropping something, tripping and falling: these are some classic bungles — and they’re always embarrassing.
Bungles are bummers, it’s true. Ever said something awkward in front of a grandparent or dropped a cake on someone’s lap? Those are bungles — accidents that make you blush. Bungle can also be used as a verb when someone acts like a fool or simply messes everything up, as in “The teacher bungled her lecture because she left her notes at home,” or “My bungling dad fell into the punch bowl. Again.”
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make a mess of, destroy, or ruin
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spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly
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an embarrassing mistaketypes:bobblethe momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseballspectaclea blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourselfbulla serious and ludicrous blunderfluffa blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)howlera glaring blunderclangera conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate
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