Other forms: foozled; foozling; foozles
Though most frequently used in golf, foozle means any failed attempt at doing something. If you're looking to impress your crush by lining up a cool shot in a pool game, you'd better not foozle it.
The origin of this mysterious word is not known. Some people think that the German dialect word fuseln, meaning "to work clumsily," may be part of its history, but how it worked its way from German to the golf course is not known even if it is true. And although it's usually a verb, golfers can use it as a noun, too: "She set up that shot so well, only for it to be a foozle."