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PRONUNCIATION OF BUNGLING

bungling  [ˈbʌŋɡəlɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BUNGLING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bungling is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BUNGLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of bungling in the English dictionary

The definition of bungling in the dictionary is characterized by making mistakes.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BUNGLING


antismuggling
ˌæntɪˈsmʌɡəlɪŋ
counselling
ˈkaʊnsəlɪŋ
cycling
ˈsaɪk əlɪŋ
disabling
dɪˈseɪb əlɪŋ
enabling
ɪnˈeɪbəlɪŋ
fingerling
ˈfɪŋɡəlɪŋ
gurgling
ˈɡɜːɡəlɪŋ
haggling
ˈhæɡəlɪŋ
juggling
ˈdʒʌɡəlɪŋ
labelling
ˈleɪbəlɪŋ
modeling
ˈmɒdəlɪŋ
modelling
ˈmɒdəlɪŋ
niggerling
ˈnɪɡəlɪŋ
remodeling
ˌriːˈmɒdəlɪŋ
signaling
ˈsɪɡnəlɪŋ
signalling
ˈsɪɡnəlɪŋ
smuggling
ˈsmʌɡəlɪŋ
straggling
ˈstræɡəlɪŋ
stumbling
ˈstʌmbəlɪŋ
travelling
ˈtrævəlɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BUNGLING

bung
bung it on
bungaloid
bungalow
bunged up
bungee
bungee cord
bungee jump
bungee jumping
bungee rope
bungee-jump
bunger
bunghole
bungle
bungler
bunglesome
bunglingly
bungwall
bungy
bungy jumping

WORDS THAT END LIKE BUNGLING

angling
calling
finagling
fledgling
frogling
gangling
giggling
jangling
kingling
mind-boggling
niggling
pigling
scraggling
spine-tingling
strangling
struggling
tingling
wangling
wrangling
Yngling
youngling

Synonyms and antonyms of bungling in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BUNGLING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «bungling» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of bungling

Translation of «bungling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BUNGLING

Find out the translation of bungling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bungling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bungling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

笨拙
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

chapuzas
570 millions of speakers

English

bungling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गोलमाल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التخبط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

головотяпство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bungling
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনৈপুণ্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

gâchis
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gembira
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pfusch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

へまな
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

어설픈
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bungling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không khôn khéo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குளறுபடிமிக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बडवणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

beceriksiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bungling
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

paskuda
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

головотяпство
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rasoleală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

bungling
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

knoeiwerk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

klumpiga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bungling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bungling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BUNGLING»

The term «bungling» is regularly used and occupies the 104.292 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BUNGLING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bungling

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BUNGLING»

Discover the use of bungling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bungling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Inside: A Top G-Man Exposes Spies, Lies, and Bureaucratic ...
Filled with startling new information (including seventy never-before-published revelations), this book gives behind-the-scenes details of FBI investigations, revealing untold secrets about the spy Larry Wu-Tai Chin, dealings with Cuban ...
Smith Smith, 2004
2
The Palestinian Peasant Economy Under the Mandate: A Story ...
Challenging the claim that Palestine's peasant economy progressed during the 1920s and 1930s, Amos Nadan skillfully integrates a wide variety of sources to demonstrate that the period was actually one of deterioration on both the macro (per ...
Amos Nadan, 2006
3
Bungling Pedro & Other Majorcan Tales
Ten tales indigenous to Majorca, an island of Spain.
Alexander Mehdevi, 1970
4
The Bungling Angel
Ki, a bungling angel, attempts to retrieve Marys spirit for the ever-after life, but Ki loses part of her angel power to Mary, who now has to help the bungling angel, until
Gordon Gerick, 2006
5
Now I Know Only So Far: Essays in Ethnopoetics
Louis Simpson's "Deer and Coyote" The term "Bungling Host" has long been established as a label for a kind of story told by Indian people throughout North America (Boas 1916:694-702; Thompson 1929:310 n.1os). A trickster, as guest, ...
Dell H. Hymes, 2003
6
The administrative bungling that hijacked the 2000 U.S. ...
In this book, author Dr. Garvin Karunaratne examines the administrative bungling which enabled George W. Bush to clinch a victory in the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election.
Garvin Karunaratne, 2004
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The History of Oeuf
It is however relatively easy to find troggles who one knows to be too bungling and incompetent even to be dishonest. He therefore proposed that they elect a High Council of Bungling Incompetents, by getting the populace to vote for the most ...
P.s.e.
8
Exercises, Political and Others
How then should it be otherwise, when instead of employing the awkward tool yourself, you employ it in the hands of another man ? If you employ a blunt spade , or employ a bungling blacksmith who cannot make and sharpen a spade without ...
Thomas Perronet Thompson, 1842
9
In Favor of Deceit: A Study of Tricksters in an Amazonian ...
She finds similarities between these tricksters and Levi-Strauss's "bungling host" in North American mythology. In one of his more bizarre reductive statements, Claude Levi-Strauss claims that Salish Coyote stories explain "the origin of ...
Ellen B. Basso, 1987
10
Flugel's Complete Dictionary of the German and English Languages
fufrf)mi/ / (pi -en) 1. bungling, dabbling in; piece of bungling; 2. blunder. "pUnMvi' lMlt/ itilj. Sf adv. bungling, in a bungling manner. spfufdjerbaftigleit//. bungling, blundering. Spfufdjern/ v. vid. ^fufdjen. • f. (lit. -n) puddle, slough, plash; compos.
C. A. Feiling, A. Heimann, 1843

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BUNGLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bungling is used in the context of the following news items.
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WATCH: Bungling tractor driver wrecks medieval bridge
This is the moment a bungling tractor driver crashed into a bridge which dates back to the middle ages. The red-faced driver of the crop sprayer ... «Aberdeen Press and Journal, Jul 15»
2
Financial bungling in Vyapam pre-dates Shivraj, reveals RTI
New Delhi: An RTI reply reveals that financial irregularities in the Madhya Pradesh professional examination board, better known as Vyapam, ... «Zee News, Jul 15»
3
Bungling Cambridge cannabis grower Neil Vasili leaves key in door …
A bungling Cambridge cannabis grower left his keys in the door of his flat which were spotted by police who found a drugs factory inside and an ... «Cambridge News, Jul 15»
4
Bungling thief falls off bike as he snatches handbag
Published: 07/07/2015 09:40:53. police.jpg (2). A BUNGLING thief fell off his bike as he snatched a woman's handbag in Newbury last week. At 11.06pm on ... «Newbury and Thatcham Chronicle, Jul 15»
5
Bungling Oldbury thug whose gang pistol whipped a shopkeeper …
A THUG from Oldbury whose armed gang pistol whipped a Black Country shopkeeper before escaping with around £2,700 has been warned ... «Evesham Journal, Jul 15»
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Bungling ram-raiders left empty-handed after failing to load safe on …
Bungling ram-raiders left empty-handed after failing to load safe on 4x4 in Hockwold. 15:55 06 July 2015. David Bale. There has been a ram-raid in Hockwold. «Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, Jul 15»
7
Bungling Zifa should put house in order
It is fast becoming a norm that national team assignments are becoming charades characterised with bungling of great proportions. Just last ... «The Zimbabwe Standard, Jul 15»
8
WA Police accused of bungling Mark Colbung murder case
It is the latest blow to the embattled police Major Crime Squad after five detectives were stood aside for bungling the murder investigation of ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
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Bungling burglar who stole safe using wheelbarrow caught after …
A burglar who stole a safe using a wheelbarrow was jailed after police found his balaclava on a tree. Officers used DNA from it to pin the crime ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
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'Bungling' police failed to notice gangster John 'Goldfinger' Palmer …
A former Flying Squad commander has criticised police for failing to spot that notorious British criminal John ''Goldfinger'' Palmer had been ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

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