[f. prec. vb.] A clumsy or unskilful piece of work; a botch, blunder, muddle. Hence bungle-headed a.
1656. H. More, Antid. Atheism (1662), 84. The most enormous slip or bungle she could commit.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 150. Those ἀμαρτήματα (as Aristotle calls them) those Errors and Bungles.
1833. Marryat, P. Simple (1863), 231. The second figure commenced, and I made a sad bungle … for I had never danced a cotillon.
1865. G. Dawson, in Leeds Mercury, 15 April, 7/1. This dear old bungle-headed commercial man but represented the old-fashioned class, pettifogging in his dealings, small in his comprehension, and unfortunate in his predictions.
