Also 6 bongler, 7 bunglar. [f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who bungles; a clumsy unskilful worker.

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1533.  More, Answ. Poyson. Bk., Wks. (1557), 1089/1. He is euen but a very bungler.

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1642.  Milton, Apol. Smect., Wks. 1738, I. 127. If any Carpenter, Smith, or Weaver, were such a bungler in his Trade.

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1820.  W. Irving, Sketch Bk., II. 326. A bungler at all … sports that required … patience or adroitness.

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1858.  Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls., I. 292. The greatest bungler that ever botched a block of marble.

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  Hence Bungler-like a. and adv.

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1603.  Florio, Montaigne (1634), 491. That Painter … having bungler-like drawn … some Cockes.

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1611.  Cotgr., Rudement … ruggedly, harshly, bunglarlike.

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