Meaning of FUMBLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'fumbul
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- [n] dropping the ball (in baseball or football)
- [v] drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder in baseball; "fumble a grounder"
- [v] handle clumsily
- [v] feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"
- [v] make one's way clumsily; "His steps fumbled"
- [v] make a mess of, destroy or ruin
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| | Synonyms: | | ball up, blow, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, grope, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| | See Also: | | bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, fail, flub, foul-up, fuckup, go across, go through, go wrong, grope for, handle, look for, miscarry, palm, pass, play, scrabble, search, seek | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Fum"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fumbled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fumbling}.] [Akin to D. fommelen to crumple, fumble, Sw.
fumla to fusuble, famla to grope, Dan. famle to grope,
fumble, Icel. falme, AS. folm palm of the hand. See {Feel},
and cf. {Fanble}, {Palm}.]
1. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or
find something.
Adams now began to fumble in his pockets.
--Fielding.
2. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to
fumble for an excuse. --Dryden.
My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles.
--Chesterfield.
Alas! how he fumbles about the domains.
--Wordsworth.
3. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with
flowers. --Shak.
\Fum"ble\, v. t.
To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.
--Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | bad job, ball up, be all thumbs, beat about, bevue, blow, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble, boggle, bollix, bollix up, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, bumble, bungle, butcher, clumsy performance, commit a gaffe, confound, confuse, drop, error, etourderie, faux pas, feel, feel around, feel for, flounder, flub, fluff, foozle, foul up, garble, gaucherie, goof up, grabble, grope, grope for, grump, hash, jumble, louse up, lumber, mar, mess, miscue, mishandle, mistake, mix up, mop, mouth, mow, muck up, muddle, muff, mug, murder, murmur, mutter, off day, pet, pi, play havoc with, play hob with, poke around, pout, pry around, riffle, sad work, scrabble, scramble, screw up, shuffle, slip, snafu, snarl up, spoil, stumble, swallow, trip, tumble |
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