Work+clumsily
121muff — n 1. failure, bungle, botch, botchery, blunder; slip, trip, stumble, bumble, fumble, clumsy performance, gaucherie; bad job, sad performance, hash, mess; careless or hasty work, slovenly performance, slapdash work, Inf. a lick and a promise, Inf …
122botch — [[t]bɒtʃ[/t]] v. t. 1) to spoil by poor work; bungle 2) to do or say in a bungling manner 3) to mend or patch in a clumsy manner 4) a poor piece of work; mess; bungle 5) a clumsily added part or patch • Etymology: 1350–1400; ME bocchen to patch… …
123tinker — tin•ker [[t]ˈtɪŋ kər[/t]] n. 1) a mender of pots and pans, usu. an itinerant 2) an unskillful or clumsy worker; bungler 3) a jack of all trades 4) an act or instance of tinkering 5) brit. scot. peo traveler 7) 6) ich a young mackerel 7) to busy… …
124botch — /bɒtʃ / (say boch) verb (t) Also, botch up. 1. to spoil by poor work; bungle. 2. to do or say in a bungling manner. 3. to mend or patch in a clumsy manner. –noun Also, botch up. 4. a clumsy or poor piece of work; a bungle: his carpentry was a… …
125botch — [bäch] vt. [ME bocchen, to repair < ?] 1. to repair or patch clumsily 2. to spoil by poor work or poor performance; bungle n. 1. a badly patched place or part 2. a bungled or unskillful piece of work botcher n. botchy adj. bot …
126bungle — v. & n. v. 1 tr. blunder over, mismanage, or fail at (a task). 2 intr. work badly or clumsily. n. a bungled attempt; bungled work. Derivatives: bungler n. Etymology: imit.: cf. BUMBLE …
127hammer — n. & v. n. 1 a a tool with a heavy metal head at right angles to the handle, used for breaking, driving nails, etc. b a machine with a metal block serving the same purpose. c a similar contrivance, as for exploding the charge in a gun, striking… …
128hammer something out — THRASH OUT, work out, agree on, sort out, decide on, bring about, effect, produce, broker, negotiate, reach an agreement on. → hammer * * * 1) make something by shaping metal with a hammer 2) laboriously work out the details of a plan or… …
