Present participle of foozle; bungling, fumbling, or messing something up in an ongoing way.
Present participle formation from foozle, adding '-ing' to create the continuous aspect in late 19th-century British English.
Describing someone as 'foozling around' has a particularly British charm—it implies not just incompetence but also a kind of bumbling, charming ineffectiveness rather than malice!
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