bungler

English

Etymology

From bungle +‎ -er.

Noun

bungler (plural bunglers)

1. Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.
   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 77:

     "What you mean, comparing me to them botchers and bunglers? There ain't anybody but me in the furniture restoring line."

   • 2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, spoken by High Prophet of Regret (Robin Atkin Downes), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Heretic:

     Noble Prophet of Truth, this has gone on long enough. Make an example of this bungler. The Council demands it.

Synonyms

• blunderer, fuckup, schlemiel; see also Thesaurus:unskilled person

Related terms

• bungle
• bungling

Translations

one who makes mistakes

• Catalan: barroer (ca) m, barroera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 糊塗蟲 / 糊涂虫 (zh) (hútuchóng), 笨手笨腳 / 笨手笨脚 (zh) (bènshǒubènjiǎo)

• Czech: packal (cs) m, vrták (cs) m, nešika m, fušer (cs) m
• Dutch: stumper (nl) m
• Esperanto: fuŝulo (eo), fuŝisto (eo)
• Finnish: tunari (fi)
• French: bousilleur (fr) m, bousilleuse (fr) f
• German: Pfuscher (de) m, Pfuscherin (de) f, Stümper (de) m
• Irish: útamálaí m
• Japanese: 不器用者 (ぶきようもの, bukiyōmono), へぼ (ja) (hebo)
• Macedonian: нека́дарник m (nekádarnik), у́тман m (útman)
• Maori: ninipa
• Norman: boucranneux m (Jersey)
• Russian: растя́па (ru) m or f (rastjápa), рази́ня (ru) m or f (razínja), простофи́ля (ru) m or f (prostofílja), бе́столочь (ru) f (béstoločʹ), ротозе́й (ru) m (rotozéj), о́лух (ru) m (ólux)
• Serbo-Croatian: šeprtlja (sh) m
• Spanish: torpe (es)
• Swedish: klåpare (sv) c, klant (sv) c
• Ukrainian: бракоро́б (uk) (brakorób)
• Welsh: bwngler m, bwnglerwr m
• Yiddish: שלימיל (shlimil), פּאַרטאַטש m (partatsh)

Anagrams

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