Bungle and Queer

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Bungle verb - To make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way.

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Queer and bungle are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Queer" instead a verb "Bungle".

Nearby Words: bung, bungling, bungled, bungler

Queer verb - Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.

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Bungle and queer are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bungle" instead a verb "Queer".

Nearby Words: queered, queering

Says the parson to Jack "That's a mighty queer name" "I'll be damned then" says Jack "at the queer way he came Smuggled up in a basket and sold on the sly And the name that he'll go by is Queer Bungle Rye-Raddy-Rye"

Source: Embarrassing First Name
In "Queer Bungle Rye" a sailor on shore leave met with a "damsel who skipped up and down," who pawned a child off on him under the pretense that it was bootleg liquor.

Source: Embarrassing First Name

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