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
"I hate to wish against the Navy, but I'll cheer if Darrin, individually, ties himself up in foozle knots!"
From Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
He would be much more likely to fail and foozle, and then what a miserable golfer would he be!
From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon
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
Brinley took his eye off the ball to look indignantly upon his wife, and consequently foozled.
From The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life by John Kendrick Bangs
There is much easy fun with linen dusters, carbide headlights, rachitic engines and foozling radiators.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 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
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 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
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