1. Showing lack of skill or aptitude
   "a bungling workman";
   - clumsy, fumbling, incompetent
    
2. Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
   "a bungling performance";
   - bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed

1. Spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly
   "I bungled it!"
    
2. Badly mishandle or ruin something
   "I bungled the dinner and we had to eat out";
   - botch, bodge [Brit, informal], bumble, fumble, botch up [informal], muff [informal], blow [informal], flub [N. Amer, informal], screw up [informal], spoil, muck up [informal], fluff [informal], bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up [informal], foul up [informal], mess up, butcher, balls up [informal], cock up [Brit, informal], goof up [informal], make a hash of [informal]

See also: maladroit, unskilled

Type of: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do, fail, go wrong, miscarry

Encyclopedia: Bungle