foozlen.
/ˈfuːzl/, U.S. /ˈfuz(ə)l/ 1. One who is ‘behind the times’, a fogy. (See also quot. 1889.)
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness > one who is old fashioned
mumpsimus1573
fogram1760
fogey1792
fogramite1813
frump1817
primitist1818
foist1820
Rip Van Winkle1833
foozle1860
old-timer1860
mossyback1865
mossback1873
dugout1912
pterodactyl1921
unhip1936
fud1942
square1944
primitivist1975
retread1982
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [noun] > gullible person, dupe
foola1382
woodcockc1430
geckc1530
cousinc1555
cokes1567
milch cow1582
gudgeon1584
coney1591
martin1591
gull1594
plover1599
rook1600
gull-finch1604
cheatee1615
goata1616
whirligig1624
chouse1649
coll1657
cully1664
bubble1668
lamb1668
Simple Simon?1673
mouth1680
dupe1681
cull1698
bub1699
game1699
muggins1705
colour1707
milk cow1727
flat1762
gulpin1802
slob1810
gaggee1819
sucker1838
hoaxee1840
softie1850
foozle1860
lemon1863
juggins1882
yob1886
patsy1889
yapc1894
fall guy1895
fruit1895
meemaw1895
easy mark1896
lobster1896
mark1896
wise guy1896
come-on1897
pushover1907
John1908
schnookle1908
Gretchen1913
jug1914
schnook1920
soft touch1924
prospect1931
steamer1932
punter1934
dill1941
Joe Soap1943
possum1945
Moreton Bay1953
easy touch1959
1860 W. M. Thackeray Chalk-mark in Roundabout Papers 115 Have we not almost all learnt these expressions of old foozles?
1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Foozle (American), a man who is easily humbugged, a fool.
2. Golf. [ < foozle v.] A ‘foozling’ stroke.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] > types of shot or stroke
putta1754
like1790
drive1829
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gobble1857
push shot1865
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push stroke1873
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slice1886
raker1888
foozle1890
hook1890
iron1890
top1890
sclaff1893
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pitch-and-run1908
windcheater1909
air shot1920
chip-in1921
explosion1924
downhiller1925
blast1927
driver1927
shank1927
socket1927
recovery1937
whiff1952
pinsplitter1961
comebacker1965
bump-and-run1981
1890 H. G. Hutchinson in H. G. Hutchinson et al. Golf (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 124 On the very rare occasions on which he made a foozle.
1891 A. Lang in Longman's Mag. Apr. 688 A ‘carry’ of a quarter of a mile would be a mere ‘foozle’ to him.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
foozlev.
/ˈfuːzl/, U.S. /ˈfuz(ə)l/ 1. intransitive. To waste one's time, to fool.
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1857 [see foozling adj. at Derivatives].
1893 in Stand. Dict.
2. transitive. To do clumsily, ‘make a mess of’; to bungle (a stroke, etc.). Golf and slang. Also absol.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > bungle
botch1530
bungle1530
mumble1588
muddle1605
mash1642
bumble?1719
to fall through ——1726
fuck1776
blunder1805
to make a mull of1821
bitch1823
mess1823
to make a mess of1834
smudge1864
to muck up1875
boss1887
to make balls of1889
duff1890
foozle1892
bollocks1901
fluff1902
to make a muck of1903
bobble1908
to ball up1911
jazz1914
boob1915
to make a hash of1920
muff1922
flub1924
to make a hat of1925
to ass up1932
louse1934
screw1938
blow1943
to foul up1943
eff1945
balls1947
to make a hames of1947
to arse up1951
to fuck up1967
dork1969
sheg1981
bodge1984
1892 Daily News 14 Jan. 5/1 You ‘will’ your opponent to foozle his tee shot.
1894 Daily News 18 Oct. 5/1 Had he taken to golf, he..might be living and foozling yet.
1894 Field 9 June 816/1 I have seen a man, a practised shot, foozle all his overhead rocketers with 30 in. barrels.
Derivatives
ˈfoozling adj. in quot. foolish, ‘fooling’.
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the world > time > spending time > [adjective] > wasting time
lose-time1603
time-wasting1626
foozling1857
slowdown1958
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. iv. 300 Let's..have no more of his foozling bird's-nesting.
ˈfoozler n. one who foozles, a bungler.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > confused, muddled person > [noun]
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juffler15..
dromedary1567
madbrain1570
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blunderkin1596
nit1598
addle-pate1601
hash1655
blunderbuss1692
blunderhead1692
shaffles1703
fog-pate1732
blunderer1741
puzzle-pate1761
slouch1767
étourdi1768
botch1769
puddle1782
bumble1789
scatter-brain1790
addle-brain1799
puzzle-head1815
shaffler1828
chowderhead1833
muddlehead1833
muddler1833
flounderer1836
duffer1842
muddle-pate1844
plug1848
incompetent1866
schlemiel1868
dinlo1873
drumble-dore1881
hodmandod1881
dub1887
prune1895
foozler1896
bollock1916
messer1926
Pilot Officer (also P.O.) Prune1942
spaz1965
spastic1981
1896 Clarion 1 Feb. 40/5 A person who ‘mulls’ his stroke is said to be a ‘foozler’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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