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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Possibly related to fumble.
Noun
famble (plural fambles)
- (obsolete, slang) A hand.
c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bush”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:We clap our fambles.
1951, Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman:A Bow Street Runner says "I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course."
1999, Nancy Kress, Yanked!, page 47:I'm keeping my fambles clean on this trip.
Etymology 2
From Middle English falmelen.
Verb
famble (third-person singular simple present fambles, present participle fambling, simple past and past participle fambled)
- (obsolete) To stammer.
1833, Horace Smith, Gale Middleton: A Story of the Present Day - Volume 1, page 149:“Stow that, Jem, if you please, ” said Gemman Joe, as he had been called by his comrade.— "Toggery is too apt to tell tales. I won't have a rag of it fambled. It's a prime job for us already, for we are to touch. five-and-twenty guineas a-piece, you know, for doing his business, and we don't get such a grab as that every day."
1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, page 310:Destiny, it might be said, simply opened its mouth to speak and, for reasons no one really knew, fambled to a halt.
2017, Mark Sampson, The Slip:“You know, I realized,” she began, her eyes sparkling in the pub's dimness, “that I didn't even catch your name at the Oxford Union the other night.” “Um, Sharpe,” I fambled. “Philip.”
See also
- fimble-famble (probably etymologically related to one of the above)
Anagrams
Krio
Noun
famble
- Alternative form of fambul
1995, Masée Touré, Bai Bureh's Countrymen, →ISBN, page 12:Pa Gasama spoke in Krio, a language that was common to all; 'Famble den who na kushe oh'.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)