foozle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fogey.
    — There is an old foozle of a lord, the earl of Ballyduff, who lives in London, and who is determined on nominating to his vacant borough
  2. A mistaken shot in golf.
    — Even poor Mr. Lloyd George cannot go out of his front door, or make a foozle on the ninth green, without being snapshotted, sketched, and probably filmed.
  3. The final boss character in a game. slang
    — The original Ultima was a kill-the-foozle type of game where the goal was to destroy the Gem of Power, which was held by an evil wizard named Mondain.
动词 v.
  1. To do (something) awkwardly or clumsily; to bungle. transitive
    — I wouldn't have trusted dear old Monty to break the death of a bluebottle without managing to foozle it somehow.
  2. To act awkwardly or clumsily. intransitive
    — An aunt is always a jocular subject. If a man foozles at golf, he does not say, 'Oh, my cousin, my brother, or my grandfather!' He says, 'Oh, my aunt!' Possibly, general, the Persian is equally deficient in the materteral instinct.

词形变化

foozles present,singular,third-person foozling participle,present foozled participle,past foozled past foozles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
foozler
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