Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Foozle

Foozle , verb, transitive and intransitive

[Compare German fuseln to work badly or slowly.]

To bungle; to manage awkwardly; to treat or play unskillfully; as, to foozle a stroke in golf.
She foozles all along the course. — Century Mag

Foozle , noun

1.
A stupid fellow; a fogy. [Colloquial]
2.
Act of foozling; a bungling stroke, as in golf.