[f. BUNGLE v.]
1. The action of the verb to BUNGLE; unskilful or clumsy working or action.
1663. Butler, Hud., I. II. 330. To prophane a thing So Sacred, with vile Bungling.
1692. Bentley, Boyle Lect., 24. To believe that … the whole universe is meer bungling & blundring.
1845. Ld. Campbell, Chancellors (1857), V. cxvi. 290. Losing all patience at his bungling.
† 2. ? Used (for the sake of rhyme) for bundling.
1593. Barnes, Elegies, in Arb., Garner, V. 412. The viper’s youngling … can[not] endure the bongling within the viper’s belly.
