The Clue
Clumsy fellow's problem (8 letter answer)
The Answer
BUNGLING
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Notes
The answer BUNGLING is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
BUNGLE as a verb:
1. (botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up) = make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
2. spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly; "I bungled it!"
BUNGLING as an adjective:
1. (bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent) = showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
2. (bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed) = lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse