bumbler
- n someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
- But if Obama is a rookie acting like a veteran, Pelosi, a career politician, has all too often filled the role of the bumbler in 2009.
- Referencing both James Stewart, as the bumbler who befriends an invisible rabbit in Harvey, and Anthony Perkins, as a dead woman's doting son in Psycho, Gosling tiptoes on the fine .
- Benny Profane, a schlemiel (the Yiddish word for chronic bumbler), is the novel's antihero.