Verb (used with object), verb (used without object) : to foozle a stroke in golf; to foozle on the last hole. From Dictionary.com.
“Did Alf Moult try to rob the till and run away in a fright when he foozled the job?”. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
"Yes, and banged up some too; but mighty glad he didn't go kerflummick down to them rocks when Percy foozled," grumbled another voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck] Reference
This particular afternoon he had tried to play the seventh hole as it should be played, and though we had both foozled, I had won the hole and romped triumphantly home with the side of pig. From Wordnik.com. [32 Caliber] Reference
He foozled five or six shots, including his approach on No. 1 into a greenside swamp, but otherwise placed his drives in the fairways and his approaches on the greens with dismaying accuracy. From Wordnik.com. [Trading Shots With Donald Trump] Reference
However, having foozled into a ruined pillbox, I reduced the offer by half, and later on, confident -- not to say insulting -- reports from Laxey induced me to withdraw the concession altogether. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04] Reference
Farrell muffed and foozled, wasting his substance in riotous slogging. From Wordnik.com. [Foe-Farrell] Reference
The first of the world who foozled his stroke (yet the grandpapa of Tyng). From Wordnik.com. [Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor] Reference
Their language, when they foozled, was gently regretful rather than sulphurous. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Upstairs and Other Stories] Reference
'My game,' I shouted because Hart had foozled his drive and wasn't on the green. From Wordnik.com. [The Altar Steps] Reference
That is to say, we are not acquainted with the duffer who foozled fifteen strokes. From Wordnik.com. [Public Opinion] Reference
The major, compelled to listen, again foozled, and a dull red began to mantle his whole face. From Wordnik.com. [It, and Other Stories] Reference
There ought not to be a single able-bodied infant in the British Isles who has not foozled a drive. From Wordnik.com. [Love Among the Chickens] Reference
The golfer missed his drive, foozled his second, put his third into a bunker, and endured other agonies. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Golfer] Reference
If he lost the match through a foozled drive, he would be justified in saying that you did not play the game. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Golfer] Reference
And the golfer did try to do his very best indeed, but he pressed and he foozled, and he lost the hole and the match. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Golfer] Reference
I've had my chance, and I've foozled; and now I'm going back to make him happy by being a real live member of the firm. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories] Reference
"He believes he can escape and denounce me as the arch rascal who planned the combine, and can convince people that I foozled him into it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Deluge] Reference
Sehwag was seen talking with Gambhir in the 21st over after the left-hander foozled a shot against Muttiah Muralitharan in the morning session. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The exercises were delayed for nearly an hour while Mr. Hatch, the photographer, prepared and foozled three attempts to get a flashlight picture of the gathering. From Wordnik.com. [Quill's Window] Reference
George to such an extent, one day last week, that he foozled a shot, and it is reported that the Government is at last contemplating serious steps against the Suffragettes. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914] Reference
He may see players on the links driving thirty or forty yards further than he has ever driven, and, wondering why, he is seized with a determination to hit harder, and then the old, old story of the foozled drive is told again. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Golfer] Reference
He knew, too, that a lot depended on his making a good impression the first thing, and instead of that he'd gone and "foozled his approach," as that city feller said last summer when he ran the catboat plump into the end of the pier. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod Stories] Reference
In measuring our fellow beings we can use only the measurements of our own selves; we have no others, and if others are given to us we are as foozled as one knowing only feet and inches who has a tape marked off in meters and centimeters. From Wordnik.com. [The Price She Paid] Reference
Then he foozled like a schoolboy, and I holed out in one and went on to the Cheese Box in two. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Half-Back] Reference
“Oh, I’m getting foozled already,” she exclaimed, gaily reverting to a girlhood habit of clapping her hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
I thought I'd foozled it. From Wordnik.com. [The Keepers of the King's Peace] Reference
He pressed and foozled badly. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914] Reference
O foozled Poetasters, fogged with Wine. From Wordnik.com. [The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr.] Reference
We foozled our approach at Bull R-run, 'he says. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War] Reference
Motto for golfer who has foozled his approach. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914] Reference
He foozled everything else concerning it.”. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
Don't you remember how many times I've foozled? ". From Wordnik.com. [Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls] Reference
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