Verb
To do (something) awkwardly or clumsily; to bungle.
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I wouldn't have trusted dear old Monty to break the death of a bluebottle without managing to foozle it somehow.
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Every baseball fan is acquainted with the sarcastic reminder, "two hands are the fashion nowadays," often hurled at the infielder who foozles an attempt at a grandstand play in the form of a one-handed catch.
To act awkwardly or clumsily.
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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.
Noun
A fogey.
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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
A mistaken shot in golf.
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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.
A cliché final boss that only exists to act as the final problem before players can complete a game.
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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.