bumbling

About 0.20 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of bumble
2. noun The act of one who bumbles; a mistake or error, especially through clumsiness.
3. adjective Acting in a confused or ineffectual way; incompetent or inept; showing little or no skill.

   a bumbling fool

Similar words

bungling butterfingered heavy-handed maladroit ham-fisted ham-handed left-handed handless inept blunder

Often followed by

and around fool along idiot of in way old

Word family

bumblingly