different between lubberly vs bungling

English

Etymology

lubber +? -ly

Adjective

lubberly (comparative more lubberly, superlative most lubberly)

1. Clumsy and stupid; resembling a lubber (an inexperienced person).
   • 1693, Thomas Urquhart, translation of Gargantua by Rabelais, Chapter XX:

     Ponocrates and Eudemon burst out in a laughing so heartily, that they had almost split with it, and given up the ghost, in rendering their souls to God: even just as Crassus did, seeing a lubberly ass eat thistles;

2. Lacking in seamanship; of or suitable to a landlubber who is new to being at sea and unfamiliar with the ways of a sailor.
   • 1848, James Fenimore Cooper, "Captain Spike, Or The Islets of the Gulf", in Bentley's Miscellany [1], page 19:

     "Do not use such a lubberly expression, my dear Rose, if you respect your father's profession. On a vessel is a new-fangled Americanism, that is neither fish, flesh, nor red-herring, as we sailors say,— neither English nor Greek."

Translations

Adverb

lubberly (comparative more lubberly, superlative most lubberly)

1. In the manner of a landlubber.
   • 1839, Matthew Henry Barker, Hamilton King [2], page 105:

     I'm not ignorant of these matters, having been many years at sea—and seamen, you must know, are curious in knots; I cannot endure to see anything done lubberly.

English

Etymology

From the verb bungle.

Adjective

bungling (comparative more bungling, superlative most bungling)

1. Incompetent or inept.

   Harry made a bungling attempt to catch the ball.

Noun

bungling (plural bunglings)

1. An act of incompetence or ineptitude.

   Your bungling nearly cost us our jobs.

Translations

Verb

bungling

1. present participle of bungle

Anagrams

• blunging