foozle
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Fo's jokes sometimes foozle aimlessly about the room like a balloon that jets on its own escaping air.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Seven Gables, as Matthiessen takes pleasure in showing, he worked out a thorough and frightening economic-spirit ual image of America, only to foozle it at the end.
From Time Magazine Archive
At that, the American got 38 and was only 1 down when the gruelling told and she began to cut drives, to foozle putts.
From Time Magazine Archive
The almost certain consequence of this attitude is a foozle.
From The Complete Golfer by Vardon, Harry
From first to last this lad didn't foozle a single drive, and his approach-putting has to be seen to be believed.
From A Damsel in Distress by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
The former thought produces an infallibly crisp hit, but in a variable direction, and the latter gives excellent aim to a sometimes foozled stroke.
From Golf Digest ● May 7, 2020
But for the most part it was a lowlight reel of snap-hooked tee shots, foozled chips and ball-in-pocket pick-ups.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 11, 2017
At the 17th tee they were even; both foozled drives; Legg was trapped on his second; trapped on his third; missed a long putt, conceded the hole, lost the match 1 down.
From Time Magazine Archive
In two previous series, 1934's and 1940's, they had got that far and foozled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their language, when they foozled, was gently regretful rather than sulphurous.
From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
There is much easy fun with linen dusters, carbide headlights, rachitic engines and foozling radiators.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was foozling my approach right along anyway, and the St. Christopher thing couldn't have changed that.
From The House of Toys by Miller, Henry Russell
It's all nonsense what you read in the comic papers about people foozling all over the place and breaking clubs and all that.
From The Clicking of Cuthbert by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
“I do not recall it,” said Ananias, foozling his second stroke into the stone wall.
From Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder by Bangs, John Kendrick
However, the chances were more in favor of my foozling the long throw than that Nobs would fall down in his part if I gave him the chance.
From The People That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
