foozle
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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
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
Fo's jokes sometimes foozle aimlessly about the room like a balloon that jets on its own escaping air.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, well, I don't want to boast, you know, Max, 'cause I might happen to make a foozle out of it.
From With Trapper Jim in the North Woods by Lawrence J. Leslie
"I don't think my father would kid us," Paul said slowly, "but I know he would be awfully disappointed that we had made a business foozle."
From Paul and the Printing Press by A. O. (Arthur O.) Scott
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
Motto for golfer who has foozled his approach:— "I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word, Nor look upon the iron angerly."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
There is much easy fun with linen dusters, carbide headlights, rachitic engines and foozling radiators.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
“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
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
