foozle

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

Miss Bingley is a tough proposition, but George Perkins is sure to foozle a few, and if we play safe we've got 'em cold.

From The Clicking of Cuthbert by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

By this time Will had become quite expert, so that there was little danger of what Bluff, taking his cue from the golfers, would have called a "foozle."

From The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery by Quincy Allen

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

In two previous series, 1934's and 1940's, they had got that far and foozled.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

When we have foozled we know well that the presumptive cause was a little movement of that most restless and anxious head.

From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Henry Leach

There is much easy fun with linen dusters, carbide headlights, rachitic engines and foozling radiators.

From Time Magazine Archive

“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 John Kendrick Bangs

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 Edgar Rice Burroughs

I was foozling my approach right along anyway, and the St. Christopher thing couldn't have changed that.

From The House of Toys by Henry Russell Miller

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 P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse