Pronounced: VIE-nuss, adj
Notes: Another word that some people will know
Yesterday’s word
The word foozle means, as a verb, “to botch or bungle: especially to make a poor shot in golf”. As a noun it means “a botched attempt at something”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
If you play golf, you probably knew this word. After seeing the definition, I think I have run across the word in reading and probably figured out the meaning from the context. However, it wasn’t familiar enough to me to be actively recalled. It is thought that our word comes from the German dialect fuseln (to work badly).
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