BUNGLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bungler mean? 

• BUNGLER (noun)
  The noun BUNGLER has 1 sense:

1. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

  Familiarity information: BUNGLER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUNGLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blunderer; botcher; bumbler; bungler; butcher; fuckup; fumbler; sad sack; stumbler

Hypernyms ("bungler" is a kind of...):

incompetent; incompetent person (someone who is not competent to take effective action)

Derivation:

bungle (spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly)

bungle (make a mess of, destroy or ruin)

 Context examples 

The meanest sloop that ever sailed out of France would have overmatched her, and then it would be on me, and not on this Devonport bungler, that a court-martial would be called.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Am I such a farcical bungler, Watson, that I should erect an obvious dummy, and expect that some of the sharpest men in Europe would be deceived by it?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I did try, but was presently swept off the stool and denominated "a little bungler."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)