different between famble vs fambly

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæmb?l/
• Rhymes: -æmb?l

Etymology 1

Possibly related to fumble.

Noun

famble (plural fambles)

1. (obsolete, slang) A hand.

   • 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."

Etymology 2

From Old English falmelen.

Verb

famble (third-person singular simple present fambles, present participle fambling, simple past and past participle fambled)

1. (obsolete) To stammer.

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Anagrams

• flambe, flambé

Krio

Noun

famble

1. Alternative form of fambul

English

Etymology

From family.

Noun

fambly (plural famblies)

1. (dialect) Family.
   • 1905, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, The Colonel's Dream

     Lawd, no, suh, de fambly did n' die out — 'deed dey did n' die out! dey ain't de kind er fambly ter die out! But it's mos' as bad, suh — dey's moved away.

   • 1915, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Old Judge Priest

     But there's a right smart chance of middle-aged famblies and even a few toler'ble new famblies in this here community.