jum´ble|ment

jum|ble¹ «JUHM buhl», verb, -bled, -bling, noun.

–v.t.

1. to mix or confuse: »

She jumbled up everything in her drawer while hunting for her white gloves.

2. to confuse mentally: »

To jumble the innocent and the guilty…by a general indemnity (Edmund Burke).

3. to shake up; jolt: »

The coach jumbled us insensibly into some sort of familiarity (Sir Richard Steele).

–v.i.

1. to move in a confused manner; flounder; stumble: »

They will all meet and jumble together (Jonathan Swift).

2. to move or travel with jolting: »

Trotting Neely…jumbled off with her cart (Scott).

–n.

1. a muddle; mixed-up mess; state of confusion: »

My desk was in such a jumble I couldn't find anything.

SYNONYM(S): medley, hodgepodge.

2. a jolt or jolting.

╂[perhaps imitative]

–jum´ble|ment, noun.

–jum´bler, noun.

jum|ble² «JUHM buhl», noun.

a cooky with a hole in the middle.

╂[probably variant of earlier gimbal, singular of gimbals (because it is ring-shaped)]