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fumble
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?mb?l/
- Rhymes: -?mb?l
Etymology 1
Late Middle English, from Low German fommeln or Dutch fommelen.
Or, perhaps from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source; compare Old Norse fálma, Swedish fumla, Danish fumle, German fummeln.
The ultimate origin for either could perhaps be imitative of fumbling. Or, from Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to shake, swing”), see also Latin palpo (“I pat, touch softly”), and possibly Proto-West Germanic *f?lijan (“to feel”).
Verb
fumble (third-person singular simple present fumbles, present participle fumbling, simple past and past participle fumbled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
- 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
- Adams now began to fumble in his pockets.}}
- 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
- (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
- To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
- To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
Synonyms
- (grope awkwardly): grubble, poke; see also Thesaurus:feel around
Translations
Noun
fumble (plural fumbles)
- (sports, American football, Canadian football) A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.
Translations
Etymology 2
Blend of fool +? crumble.
Noun
fumble (plural fumbles)
- (Britain) A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble.
Further reading
- fumble on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
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delve
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?lv/
- Rhymes: -?lv
Etymology 1
From Middle English delven, from Old English delfan (“to dig, dig out, burrow, bury”), from Proto-Germanic *delban? (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?elb?- (“to dig”). Cognate with West Frisian dolle (“to dig, delve”), Dutch delven (“to dig, delve”), Low German dölven (“to dig, delve”), dialectal German delben, telben (“to dig, delve”).
Verb
delve (third-person singular simple present delves, present participle delving, simple past delved or (obsolete) dolve, past participle delved or (archaic) dolven)
- (intransitive) To dig the ground, especially with a shovel.
- Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.
- I got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might - it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws; I was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that I heard a sigh from some one above, close at the edge of the grave, and bending down.
- (transitive, intransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
- 1609-11, Shakespeare, Cymbeline, King of Britain
- I cannot delve him to the root.
- 1943, Emile C. Tepperman, Calling Justice, Inc.!
- She was intensely eager to delve into the mystery of Mr. Joplin and his brief case.
- 1609-11, Shakespeare, Cymbeline, King of Britain
- (transitive, intransitive) To dig, to excavate.
- ca. 1260, Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend
- And then they made an oratory behind the altar, and would have dolven for to have laid the body in that oratory ...
- 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, chapter IV
- Let him take off his plates and delve himself, if delving must be done.
- ca. 1260, Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend
Synonyms
- (to dig the ground): dig
- (to search thoroughly): investigate, research
Derived terms
- delver
- indelve
- undelve
Related terms
- dolven
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English delve, delf, dælf, from Old English delf, ?edelf (“digging”) and dælf (“that which is dug out, delf, ditch”). More at delf.
Noun
delve (plural delves)
- (now rare) A pit or den.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
- the wise Merlin whylome wont (they say) / To make his wonne, low vnderneath the ground, / In a deepe delue, farre from the vew of day [...].
- 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage 2015, p. 75:
- I put the clods on top the delve and gave it all a good thumping down with my feet.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
Related terms
- stonedelf
Anagrams
- devel
Dutch
Verb
delve
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of delven
Anagrams
- velde
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English delfan.
Verb
delve
- Alternative form of delven
Etymology 2
From Old English delf.
Noun
delve
- Alternative form of delf
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