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Scamble   Listen
verb
Scamble  v. i.  (past & past part. scambled; pres. part. scambling)  
1.
To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble. "Some scambling shifts." "A fine old hall, but a scambling house."
2.
To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble. "The scambling and unquiet time did push it out of... question."





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"Scamble" Quotes from Famous Books



... is indicated in jangle, tangle, spangle, mangle, wrangle, brangle, dangle; as also in mumble, grumble, jumble. But at the same time the close u implies something obscure or obtunded; and a congeries of consonants mbl, denotes a confused kind of rolling or tumbling, as in ramble, scamble, scramble, wamble, amble; but in these there is ...
— A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson
... and loose my way Among the thornes, and dangers of this world. How easie dost thou take all England vp, From forth this morcell of dead Royaltie? The life, the right, and truth of all this Realme Is fled to heauen: and England now is left To tug and scamble, and to part by th' teeth The vn-owed interest of proud swelling State: Now for the bare-pickt bone of Maiesty, Doth dogged warre bristle his angry crest, And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace: Now Powers from home, and discontents at home Meet in one line: and vast confusion waites As doth ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare


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