garblen.

Brit.

/ˈɡɑːbl/, U.S.

/ˈɡɑrb(ə)l/

Forms: late Middle English–1600s garbell, late Middle English 1600s– garble, 1500s–1600s garbyll.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: garble v.

Etymology: < garble v.Compare Italian garbello sieve (1438 as gherbello ), Middle French grabel , (Lyons) garbel , Middle French, French grabeau sieve (1439), refuse which remains of a substance after sifting it (15th cent.), Catalan garbell sieve (14th cent.), Spanish garbillo sieve used for sifting grain (18th cent.). With sense 1 compare garbler n. 1.

†1. The office or position of a person who inspects and sifts spices or other commodities to ensure that any refuse is removed. Cf. garbler n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > [noun] > one who > office of

garble1431

garblership1444

1431 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. 202 (MED) For the seall for the garble.

1433–4 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. 230 Also receyvyd of Thomas Burbage for his ferme of the garbell.

†2. Refuse, such as husks, dust, or soil, that is separated out from a commodity, esp. a spice; a piece of refuse. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun]

wrakea1350

outcastingc1350

rammel1370

rubble1376

mullockc1390

refusec1390

filtha1398

outcasta1398

chaff?a1400

rubbishc1400

wastec1430

drossc1440

raff?1440

rascal1440

murgeonc1450

wrack1472

gear1489

garblec1503

scowl1538

raffle1543

baggage1549

garbage1549

peltry1550

gubbins?1553

lastage1553

scruff1559

retraict1575

ross1577

riddings1584

ket1586

scouring1588

pelf1589

offal1598

rummage1598

dog's meat1606

retriment1615

spitling1620

recrement1622

mundungus1637

sordes1640

muskings1649

rejectament1654

offscouring1655

brat1656

relicts1687

offage1727

litter1730

rejectamenta1795

outwale1825

detritus1834

junk1836

wastements1843

croke1847–78

sculch1847

debris1851

rumble1854

flotsam1861

jetsam1861

pelt1880

offcasting1893

rubbishry1894

littering1897

muckings1898

wastage1898

dreck1905

bruck1929

crap1934

garbo1953

clobber1965

dooky1965

grot1971

tippings-

the world > food and drink > food > additive > spice > [noun] > refuse from spices

garblec1503

pepper dust1844

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxxix ^v/1 The garbyll of macis.

1603–4 Act 1 James I c. 19 §2 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. 1036 If any the saide Spices..shall be mixed with any Garbles..after..the same shalbe firste garbled..by the Garbler thereunto appointed.

1609 F. Pulton De Pace Regis et Regni f. 81 All spices, wares, drugges, and other marchandizes garbleable, shall..be sufficiently garbled and diuided.., & shall not after be mixed with any garble.

1640 in J. Entick Hist. London (1767) II. 175 Garble of cloves, of Almonds.

1854 Notes & Queries 29 Apr. 407/1 The weeder removes weeds from flowers or plants, the garbler removes garbles from spices and bad bow staves from amongst good ones.

†3.

a. A commodity which includes a low-quality or unusable component, such as greaves in tallow or flock in wool, and is typically sold by avoirdupois weight. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > load or lot of specific size or abundance > in a mixture or assortment

garble1592

garblings1774

oddling1854

odd lot1858

1592 Assise of Bread (rev. ed.) sig. B4^v There is also an other vsuall weight..which weight serueth to wey Butter, Cheese, Flesh, Tallow, Waxe, and euery other thing that beareth the name of Garbell, and whereof issueth a refuse or waste.

1710 H. Johnson New Treat. Pract. Arithmetick iii. 29 By Avoirdupois Weight are commonly weighed Butter, Cheese, Wax, Tallow, Flesh.., all sorts of Grocery Wares, and all such kind of Garble whence there may issue a Waste.

b. An alloy containing precious and base metal. Cf. alloy n. 3b. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1058 The acid must be boiled on the granulated garble, or alloy, to effect the solution of the silver.

1868 E. Seyd Bullion xvi. 190 The granulated Gold and Silver Alloy, or garble, as it is technically termed, is put into large stone-ware vessels, and the proper quantity of Nitric Acid is poured over it.

4. A confused or jumbled account, report, or description; garbled speech or sounds. In early use with implications of deliberate misrepresentation (see quot. 1795).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun]

oblocution?a1475

hacking1539

misspeaking1650

babble1667

dysphonia1706

inarticulateness1731

inarticulation1765

garble1795

thickness1849

dyslalia1854

dyslaly1856

misarticulation1866

dysarthria1877

dysarthrosis1877

cluttering1878

anarthria1879

inarticulacy1921

dysphasia-

1795 Morning Post 22 July 3/4 The former statement may be relied on as truth; the latter must be considered as a garble to serve the purposes of a puff.

1839 Age 11 Aug. 251/2 It is the most disgusting garble for men to say, as an excuse for the bad and unsafe condition of Ireland, that it was worse before.

1966 S. R. Delany Babel-17 i. i. 10 You gave me ten pages of double-spaced typewritten garble..and asked what it meant... I can't tell you.

2014 H. Thorpe Soldier Girls i. iv. 72 The new radios employed voice encryption and frequency hopping systems to defy an enemy's ability to listen in—although the frequency hopping system sometimes meant that even friendly soldiers heard only garble.

†5. The action or process of garbling (in various senses). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > [noun]

siftingc1440

sieving1499

riddling1552

cribration1617

screening1651

garble1808

sift1814

ricing1893

1808 ‘P. Pindar’ One More Peep at Royal Acad. 28 Did not the Lady smile upon the garble [i.e. the mutilation of a statue].

1829 J. B. Heath Acct. Company Grocers (1854) 60 The officer..was sworn..to observe that the garble of merchants goods should be impartial.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

garblev.

Brit.

/ˈɡɑːbl/, U.S.

/ˈɡɑrb(ə)l/, Irish English

/ˈɡɑːrb(ə)l/

Forms: late Middle English garbal, late Middle English–1600s garbel, 1500s garvel, 1500s–1600s garbell, 1500s– garble.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French garbeller, garbeler.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman garbeller, Anglo-Norman and Middle French garbeler to sift (spices) (1304 in Old French (Flanders) as garbaler ) < Italian †garbellare , †gherbellare to sift (spices) (early 14th cent.) < Arabic ġarbala to sift (also karbala ) to sift, select < colloquial Arabic ġarbāl (end of the 10th cent.), variant of literary Arabic ġirbāl sieve (also kirbāl ), cognate with Aramaic 'arbalā sieve ( > Akkadian arballu ). Compare garble n. Compare also garboil v. and garboil n., with which some mutual influence seems likely.Compare post-classical Latin garbelare to sift (spices) (13th cent. in a document from Marseille; early 14th cent. in Italian sources; 15th cent. in British sources). Compare also the metathesized variant Middle French, French grabeler (early 14th cent. in Old French; in Middle French also used figuratively in the sense ‘to examine (something) carefully’ (1546 in Rabelais)). Although it has sometimes been suggested that the Arabic noun for ‘sieve’ might be a loan < classical Latin crībellum sieve (see cribellum n.), the resemblance between the two words appears to be the result of chance. (Some varieties of Arabic have borrowed the Romance reflex of the Latin noun (e.g. Moroccan Arabic kərballo sieve), a process probably helped by the formal resemblance of the Romance word to the native Arabic noun.)

1. transitive. To remove husks, dust, soil, or other refuse from (spices, dyestuffs, etc.); to sift or cleanse of refuse. Also figurative. Cf. garble n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > sift [verb (transitive)]

try1382

searcec1400

garble1419

riddle1440

sieve1499

cribble1558

cribe1570

sift1591

succernate1623

cribrate1627

percribrate1652

screen1657

ridder1743

1419–20 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 202 (MED) No Maner Man..schall bye no Grene ȝinȝer..lesse þanne hit be Garbelyd by þe Garbelour.

a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 400 That his spyces be good and clene garbelid.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 79 We fall all a Coughing, which lasts..as long as we are garbling it [sc. red pepper].

1662 J. Howell New Eng. Gram. 83 The French finding lately this inconvenience, have garbled their Toung of such letters.

1789 R. Saunders in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 79 107 Seed lac is only the stick lac broke into small pieces, garbled, and appearing in a granulated form.

1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 55 Cochineal may be screened and garbled in the presence of the proper officers.

1964 Times of India 28 Sept. 4/2 Alleppey with fourteen units for garbling pepper, exports annually about 9,000 tonnes of pepper.

2000 Food Manuf. (Nexis) Jan. 19 One such [guild] comprising the Pepperers, was recognised by Henry II and specifically permitted to sift, or garble, spices and other foods.

2. transitive. To select or sort out the best in (any thing or set of things); to take the pick of; to remove the low-quality component from (a commodity). Now Irish English (southern).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose > pick out the best

garble1484

coil1607

cream1615

geld1637

cull1713

to pick over1732

1484 [implied in: Rolls of Parl.: Richard III (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1484 §30. m. 20 They wilnot suffre any garbelyng of theym [sc. bowestaves] to be made, but selle good and bad at so excessyf price to gedyr ungarbeled. (at garbling n. 1a)].

1628 J. Taylor (title) Wit and Mirth..Apothegmatically bundled vp and garbled at the request of old John Garret's Ghost.

1660 tr. M. Amyraut Treat. conc. Relig. ii. 177 Why did not Cicero garble [Fr. esplucher] all those different Opinions..to frame a good one if possible?

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 197 A priviledge..to garble the Live-Pigs in the Markets of the City.

1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xv. 239/2 To prevent this Office of garbling Wools, the Haberdashers interposed.

1814 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 74 308 It has been found necessary to garble his parterre, to throw away the flowerets that are off show [etc.].

1875 W. S. Jevons Money viii. 81 Hence arises the practice, extensively carried on in the present day in England, of picking and culling, or, as another technical expression is, garbling the coinage, devoting the good new coins to the melting-pot, and passing the old worn coins into circulation again.

1996 D. Ó Muirithe Words we Use 36 Greyhound pups are let out in the yard to be garbled by prospective buyers.

†3.

a. transitive. To remove or exclude members who are considered uncooperative or otherwise undesirable from (an army, institution, group of people, etc.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > make types of choice [verb (intransitive)] > make a selection > separate valuable part from worthless

garble1649

1649 J. Geree Καταδυναστης i. 3 The Army beset the passages to the House of Commons, take above forty of the Members of Parliament into safe custody, and violently keep or fright a major part out of the House... This action of the Army Mr. John Goodwin undertakes to defend under the title of garbling the Parliament.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. viii. 174 But his army must be garbled, as too great for God to give victory thereby.

1702 D. Defoe Enq. Occas. Conformity 19 If we have any Hypocrites, any who can Conform, and do not, we are free to part with them;..and when you have Garbl'd us to your Heart's desire, and ours, you need never fear your Church.

1736 T. Lediard Life Marlborough I. 64 Colleges were attempted to be garbled, and immemorial Foundations broken in upon..to make Room even for Profligates, if new Converts.

1811 Ann. Reg. (1809) (Otridge ed.) 230/1 The government..set itself to garble the army to its mind.

b. transitive. To remove, exclude (an unfit or undesirable person). Also with out. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1656 F. Osborne Advice to Son (ed. 4) i. 2 By garbling out of them all Boyes of an incapacity.

1714 J. Dunton Conventicle 66 Could we but purge the Convocation, how many of this Kidney might be garbled out of it; and especially how thin would the Upper-House remain?

1891 Druggists Circular June 126/3 Dr. Slack moved..that the rate be made five per cent, as that would garble out all those who could barely get through.

†4. transitive. To remove, separate out (the desirable or undesirable part) from the remainder; to select, pick out (the best part). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose > separate valuable from worthless

leasec1420

to weed outc1485

winnowa1616

post-cribrate1627

garble1655

weed1833

to screen out1887

screen1943

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. xi. 218 He ought to untongue it from talking to his prejudice, and should have garbled some light trivial and joculary passages out of the same.

1659 J. Howell Παροιμιογραϕια sig. 3[fleur-de-lys] If the Morisco words were garbled out she wold be nothing but Latin.

1677 W. Lloyd Considerations touching True Way 51 They would not have Popery garbled out of ther Religion.

1691 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 16 503 They..will crumble into Grains, and the Wings separate from them, which must be garbled out.

1708 J. Ozell tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin v. 90 Each Glutton hunts, and garbles out Nice Bits.

1797 W. Hill Let. 7 Dec. 17 If you act under the charter at all, you must perform all it requires, for you cannot garble out such parts of it as may answer your little private ends.

(a) transitive. To make selections from (a statement, fact, piece of writing, etc.), typically with an unfair or malicious purpose; to purposefully distort or corrupt (a statement, a piece of writing, etc.) so as to misrepresent or mislead.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > misrepresent [verb (transitive)]

disguise1398

colourc1400

abuse?a1439

wrest1524

beliec1531

to spell (one) backward1600

misuse1609

bowa1616

falsify1630

misrepresent1633

traduce1643

garble1659

miscolour1661

misrender1674

travesty1825

misdescribe1827

skew1872

misportray1925

1659 F. Osborne Misc. Sundry Ess. To. Rdr. sig. a3^v Those pretend to a power of garbleing things brought the Presse, are not all of one and the same Judgement.

1692 J. Locke 3rd Let. for Toleration vii. 161 To garble thus the Truths of Religion, and by their own Authority take some not necessary to Salvation.

1749 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Spirit Patriotism Advt. 9 More properly the writings of others than his, considering how they had been garbled.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. i. 42 The late Governor-General..had withheld, mutilated, or garbled the correspondence.

2018 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) (Nexis) 9 May To garble facts and misapply the law.

(b) transitive. To inadvertently or unintentionally distort (a person's words, a statement, message, story, etc.); to jumble, confuse; to distort (a sound, voice, etc.); to make unintelligible.Now the predominant sense.

ΚΠ

1841 R. Park Pantology Introd. 24 Without the aids of writing and printing,..all knowledge would have been limited in its diffusion, garbled by frequent transmission, and confused by the imperfections of memory.

1898 Denver Evening Post 14 Sept. 4/4 The report of a steamer coming down the Yukon crowded with returning miners who were loaded with dust proves to have been garbled in transmission. It should have read ‘loaded with disgust’.

1962 U.S. Naval Inst. Proc. Jan. 62/1 Ensign Taichi Imanishi was sent away at 0454, his last words garbled by a faulty telephone connection.

1962 Changing Times Jan. Improperly timed machines garble the sound, producing distortions.

2003 Mirror (Nexis) 1 Mar. 6 Many famous sayings have been garbled in the retelling.

b. transitive. To misrepresent or distort the meaning of (a person), either intentionally or inadvertently.

ΚΠ

1834 J. A. Jones Joseph Corrected 21 Really, Joseph, this is speaking out boldly sure enough; yes, this is language that cannot be misunderstood. I have not ‘garbled’ you now, have I?

1895 F. Hall Two Trifles 8 By garbling me he indulges in uncandid suppression of the truth.

2004 M. O'Brien Conjectures of Order II. xix. 1051 James Smith Rhett of Charleston, who dabbled in Kant and much garbled him.

(a) transitive. To say (something) in an unintelligible, incoherent, or rambling way. Frequently with out.Often with direct speech as object.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > express unintelligibly [verb (transitive)]

rabblec1430

jabber1532

gabble1566

gibberish1577

cant1592

garble1879

misspeak1890

rhubarb1962

1879 M. des C. De la Tour Gluck 162 ‘The Jesuit had come after all! and he must leave his poor old grandmother to die of grief and want...’ All this the unhappy boy garbled out between his sobs and moans.

1972 C. C. Ottesen in L. R. Hartshorn Memorable Christmas Stories (1974) 136 ‘That's for you, Cheryl,’ she garbled with her mouth full.

1985 B. Barnes & T. Clarke How to get Man to make Commitment 70 Nervous and embarrassed, she garbled out a reply.

2004 D. Mitchell Cloud Atlas (U.K. ed.) 477 Confusedly, I garbled out, like a total idiot, ‘Oh, there′s been an accident!’

(b) intransitive. To talk in an unintelligible, incoherent, or rambling way; to gabble, prattle; to mumble. Frequently with on.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > talk gibberish [verb (intransitive)]

rabblea1400

javerc1440

jabber1499

jabble1570

jargon1570

gabble1574

gibberish1577

gibber1604

cant1728

jibber1824

rigmarole1831

to talk through (the back of) one's neck1899

garble1913

jibber-jabber1922

jabberwock1959

1913 R. A. Maher Mantilla xvi. 235 He was murmuring quietly to himself... He garbled on unnoticing.

1974 G. Paley Enormous Changes at Last Minute (1979) 82 Speak clearly, Faith. You're garbling.

2009 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 21 Nov. 109 We the listeners do not want to know what you had for dinner last night or what you watched on TV or all the other garbage you garble on about.

†6. transitive. To disembowel or remove the offal from (an animal). Cf. garbage v. 1. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] > disembowel

bowel1330

disbowelc1440

debowel1487

unpauncha1500

garbage1542

unbowel1552

disentrail1596

untripe1611

disembowel1613

exenterate1613

hulk1622

eviscerate1623

eventerate1656

garble1661

viscerate1727

degut1933

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. D2 Birds..rightly killed, garbelled, and pulled.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	garble
释义	garblen. Brit. /ˈɡɑːbl/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrb(ə)l/ Forms: late Middle English–1600s garbell, late Middle English 1600s– garble, 1500s–1600s garbyll. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: garble v. Etymology: < garble v.Compare Italian garbello sieve (1438 as gherbello ), Middle French grabel , (Lyons) garbel , Middle French, French grabeau sieve (1439), refuse which remains of a substance after sifting it (15th cent.), Catalan garbell sieve (14th cent.), Spanish garbillo sieve used for sifting grain (18th cent.). With sense 1 compare garbler n. 1. †1. The office or position of a person who inspects and sifts spices or other commodities to ensure that any refuse is removed. Cf. garbler n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > [noun] > one who > office of garble1431 garblership1444 1431 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. 202 (MED) For the seall for the garble. 1433–4 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. 230 Also receyvyd of Thomas Burbage for his ferme of the garbell. †2. Refuse, such as husks, dust, or soil, that is separated out from a commodity, esp. a spice; a piece of refuse. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] wrakea1350 outcastingc1350 rammel1370 rubble1376 mullockc1390 refusec1390 filtha1398 outcasta1398 chaff?a1400 rubbishc1400 wastec1430 drossc1440 raff?1440 rascal1440 murgeonc1450 wrack1472 gear1489 garblec1503 scowl1538 raffle1543 baggage1549 garbage1549 peltry1550 gubbins?1553 lastage1553 scruff1559 retraict1575 ross1577 riddings1584 ket1586 scouring1588 pelf1589 offal1598 rummage1598 dog's meat1606 retriment1615 spitling1620 recrement1622 mundungus1637 sordes1640 muskings1649 rejectament1654 offscouring1655 brat1656 relicts1687 offage1727 litter1730 rejectamenta1795 outwale1825 detritus1834 junk1836 wastements1843 croke1847–78 sculch1847 debris1851 rumble1854 flotsam1861 jetsam1861 pelt1880 offcasting1893 rubbishry1894 littering1897 muckings1898 wastage1898 dreck1905 bruck1929 crap1934 garbo1953 clobber1965 dooky1965 grot1971 tippings- the world > food and drink > food > additive > spice > [noun] > refuse from spices garblec1503 pepper dust1844 c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxxix ^v/1 The garbyll of macis. 1603–4 Act 1 James I c. 19 §2 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. 1036 If any the saide Spices..shall be mixed with any Garbles..after..the same shalbe firste garbled..by the Garbler thereunto appointed. 1609 F. Pulton De Pace Regis et Regni f. 81 All spices, wares, drugges, and other marchandizes garbleable, shall..be sufficiently garbled and diuided.., & shall not after be mixed with any garble. 1640 in J. Entick Hist. London (1767) II. 175 Garble of cloves, of Almonds. 1854 Notes & Queries 29 Apr. 407/1 The weeder removes weeds from flowers or plants, the garbler removes garbles from spices and bad bow staves from amongst good ones. †3. a. A commodity which includes a low-quality or unusable component, such as greaves in tallow or flock in wool, and is typically sold by avoirdupois weight. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > load or lot of specific size or abundance > in a mixture or assortment garble1592 garblings1774 oddling1854 odd lot1858 1592 Assise of Bread (rev. ed.) sig. B4^v There is also an other vsuall weight..which weight serueth to wey Butter, Cheese, Flesh, Tallow, Waxe, and euery other thing that beareth the name of Garbell, and whereof issueth a refuse or waste. 1710 H. Johnson New Treat. Pract. Arithmetick iii. 29 By Avoirdupois Weight are commonly weighed Butter, Cheese, Wax, Tallow, Flesh.., all sorts of Grocery Wares, and all such kind of Garble whence there may issue a Waste. b. An alloy containing precious and base metal. Cf. alloy n. 3b. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1058 The acid must be boiled on the granulated garble, or alloy, to effect the solution of the silver. 1868 E. Seyd Bullion xvi. 190 The granulated Gold and Silver Alloy, or garble, as it is technically termed, is put into large stone-ware vessels, and the proper quantity of Nitric Acid is poured over it. 4. A confused or jumbled account, report, or description; garbled speech or sounds. In early use with implications of deliberate misrepresentation (see quot. 1795). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] oblocution?a1475 hacking1539 misspeaking1650 babble1667 dysphonia1706 inarticulateness1731 inarticulation1765 garble1795 thickness1849 dyslalia1854 dyslaly1856 misarticulation1866 dysarthria1877 dysarthrosis1877 cluttering1878 anarthria1879 inarticulacy1921 dysphasia- 1795 Morning Post 22 July 3/4 The former statement may be relied on as truth; the latter must be considered as a garble to serve the purposes of a puff. 1839 Age 11 Aug. 251/2 It is the most disgusting garble for men to say, as an excuse for the bad and unsafe condition of Ireland, that it was worse before. 1966 S. R. Delany Babel-17 i. i. 10 You gave me ten pages of double-spaced typewritten garble..and asked what it meant... I can't tell you. 2014 H. Thorpe Soldier Girls i. iv. 72 The new radios employed voice encryption and frequency hopping systems to defy an enemy's ability to listen in—although the frequency hopping system sometimes meant that even friendly soldiers heard only garble. †5. The action or process of garbling (in various senses). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > [noun] siftingc1440 sieving1499 riddling1552 cribration1617 screening1651 garble1808 sift1814 ricing1893 1808 ‘P. Pindar’ One More Peep at Royal Acad. 28 Did not the Lady smile upon the garble [i.e. the mutilation of a statue]. 1829 J. B. Heath Acct. Company Grocers (1854) 60 The officer..was sworn..to observe that the garble of merchants goods should be impartial. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). garblev. Brit. /ˈɡɑːbl/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrb(ə)l/, Irish English /ˈɡɑːrb(ə)l/ Forms: late Middle English garbal, late Middle English–1600s garbel, 1500s garvel, 1500s–1600s garbell, 1500s– garble. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French garbeller, garbeler. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman garbeller, Anglo-Norman and Middle French garbeler to sift (spices) (1304 in Old French (Flanders) as garbaler ) < Italian †garbellare , †gherbellare to sift (spices) (early 14th cent.) < Arabic ġarbala to sift (also karbala ) to sift, select < colloquial Arabic ġarbāl (end of the 10th cent.), variant of literary Arabic ġirbāl sieve (also kirbāl ), cognate with Aramaic 'arbalā sieve ( > Akkadian arballu ). Compare garble n. Compare also garboil v. and garboil n., with which some mutual influence seems likely.Compare post-classical Latin garbelare to sift (spices) (13th cent. in a document from Marseille; early 14th cent. in Italian sources; 15th cent. in British sources). Compare also the metathesized variant Middle French, French grabeler (early 14th cent. in Old French; in Middle French also used figuratively in the sense ‘to examine (something) carefully’ (1546 in Rabelais)). Although it has sometimes been suggested that the Arabic noun for ‘sieve’ might be a loan < classical Latin crībellum sieve (see cribellum n.), the resemblance between the two words appears to be the result of chance. (Some varieties of Arabic have borrowed the Romance reflex of the Latin noun (e.g. Moroccan Arabic kərballo sieve), a process probably helped by the formal resemblance of the Romance word to the native Arabic noun.) 1. transitive. To remove husks, dust, soil, or other refuse from (spices, dyestuffs, etc.); to sift or cleanse of refuse. Also figurative. Cf. garble n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > sift [verb (transitive)] try1382 searcec1400 garble1419 riddle1440 sieve1499 cribble1558 cribe1570 sift1591 succernate1623 cribrate1627 percribrate1652 screen1657 ridder1743 1419–20 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 202 (MED) No Maner Man..schall bye no Grene ȝinȝer..lesse þanne hit be Garbelyd by þe Garbelour. a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 400 That his spyces be good and clene garbelid. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 79 We fall all a Coughing, which lasts..as long as we are garbling it [sc. red pepper]. 1662 J. Howell New Eng. Gram. 83 The French finding lately this inconvenience, have garbled their Toung of such letters. 1789 R. Saunders in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 79 107 Seed lac is only the stick lac broke into small pieces, garbled, and appearing in a granulated form. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 55 Cochineal may be screened and garbled in the presence of the proper officers. 1964 Times of India 28 Sept. 4/2 Alleppey with fourteen units for garbling pepper, exports annually about 9,000 tonnes of pepper. 2000 Food Manuf. (Nexis) Jan. 19 One such [guild] comprising the Pepperers, was recognised by Henry II and specifically permitted to sift, or garble, spices and other foods. 2. transitive. To select or sort out the best in (any thing or set of things); to take the pick of; to remove the low-quality component from (a commodity). Now Irish English (southern). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose > pick out the best garble1484 coil1607 cream1615 geld1637 cull1713 to pick over1732 1484 [implied in: Rolls of Parl.: Richard III (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1484 §30. m. 20 They wilnot suffre any garbelyng of theym [sc. bowestaves] to be made, but selle good and bad at so excessyf price to gedyr ungarbeled. (at garbling n. 1a)]. 1628 J. Taylor (title) Wit and Mirth..Apothegmatically bundled vp and garbled at the request of old John Garret's Ghost. 1660 tr. M. Amyraut Treat. conc. Relig. ii. 177 Why did not Cicero garble [Fr. esplucher] all those different Opinions..to frame a good one if possible? a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 197 A priviledge..to garble the Live-Pigs in the Markets of the City. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xv. 239/2 To prevent this Office of garbling Wools, the Haberdashers interposed. 1814 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 74 308 It has been found necessary to garble his parterre, to throw away the flowerets that are off show [etc.]. 1875 W. S. Jevons Money viii. 81 Hence arises the practice, extensively carried on in the present day in England, of picking and culling, or, as another technical expression is, garbling the coinage, devoting the good new coins to the melting-pot, and passing the old worn coins into circulation again. 1996 D. Ó Muirithe Words we Use 36 Greyhound pups are let out in the yard to be garbled by prospective buyers. †3. a. transitive. To remove or exclude members who are considered uncooperative or otherwise undesirable from (an army, institution, group of people, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > make types of choice [verb (intransitive)] > make a selection > separate valuable part from worthless garble1649 1649 J. Geree Καταδυναστης i. 3 The Army beset the passages to the House of Commons, take above forty of the Members of Parliament into safe custody, and violently keep or fright a major part out of the House... This action of the Army Mr. John Goodwin undertakes to defend under the title of garbling the Parliament. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. viii. 174 But his army must be garbled, as too great for God to give victory thereby. 1702 D. Defoe Enq. Occas. Conformity 19 If we have any Hypocrites, any who can Conform, and do not, we are free to part with them;..and when you have Garbl'd us to your Heart's desire, and ours, you need never fear your Church. 1736 T. Lediard Life Marlborough I. 64 Colleges were attempted to be garbled, and immemorial Foundations broken in upon..to make Room even for Profligates, if new Converts. 1811 Ann. Reg. (1809) (Otridge ed.) 230/1 The government..set itself to garble the army to its mind. b. transitive. To remove, exclude (an unfit or undesirable person). Also with out. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1656 F. Osborne Advice to Son (ed. 4) i. 2 By garbling out of them all Boyes of an incapacity. 1714 J. Dunton Conventicle 66 Could we but purge the Convocation, how many of this Kidney might be garbled out of it; and especially how thin would the Upper-House remain? 1891 Druggists Circular June 126/3 Dr. Slack moved..that the rate be made five per cent, as that would garble out all those who could barely get through. †4. transitive. To remove, separate out (the desirable or undesirable part) from the remainder; to select, pick out (the best part). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose > separate valuable from worthless leasec1420 to weed outc1485 winnowa1616 post-cribrate1627 garble1655 weed1833 to screen out1887 screen1943 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. xi. 218 He ought to untongue it from talking to his prejudice, and should have garbled some light trivial and joculary passages out of the same. 1659 J. Howell Παροιμιογραϕια sig. 3[fleur-de-lys] If the Morisco words were garbled out she wold be nothing but Latin. 1677 W. Lloyd Considerations touching True Way 51 They would not have Popery garbled out of ther Religion. 1691 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 16 503 They..will crumble into Grains, and the Wings separate from them, which must be garbled out. 1708 J. Ozell tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin v. 90 Each Glutton hunts, and garbles out Nice Bits. 1797 W. Hill Let. 7 Dec. 17 If you act under the charter at all, you must perform all it requires, for you cannot garble out such parts of it as may answer your little private ends. 5. a. (a) transitive. To make selections from (a statement, fact, piece of writing, etc.), typically with an unfair or malicious purpose; to purposefully distort or corrupt (a statement, a piece of writing, etc.) so as to misrepresent or mislead. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > misrepresentation > misrepresent [verb (transitive)] disguise1398 colourc1400 abuse?a1439 wrest1524 beliec1531 to spell (one) backward1600 misuse1609 bowa1616 falsify1630 misrepresent1633 traduce1643 garble1659 miscolour1661 misrender1674 travesty1825 misdescribe1827 skew1872 misportray1925 1659 F. Osborne Misc. Sundry Ess. To. Rdr. sig. a3^v Those pretend to a power of garbleing things brought the Presse, are not all of one and the same Judgement. 1692 J. Locke 3rd Let. for Toleration vii. 161 To garble thus the Truths of Religion, and by their own Authority take some not necessary to Salvation. 1749 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Spirit Patriotism Advt. 9 More properly the writings of others than his, considering how they had been garbled. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. i. 42 The late Governor-General..had withheld, mutilated, or garbled the correspondence. 2018 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) (Nexis) 9 May To garble facts and misapply the law. (b) transitive. To inadvertently or unintentionally distort (a person's words, a statement, message, story, etc.); to jumble, confuse; to distort (a sound, voice, etc.); to make unintelligible.Now the predominant sense. ΚΠ 1841 R. Park Pantology Introd. 24 Without the aids of writing and printing,..all knowledge would have been limited in its diffusion, garbled by frequent transmission, and confused by the imperfections of memory. 1898 Denver Evening Post 14 Sept. 4/4 The report of a steamer coming down the Yukon crowded with returning miners who were loaded with dust proves to have been garbled in transmission. It should have read ‘loaded with disgust’. 1962 U.S. Naval Inst. Proc. Jan. 62/1 Ensign Taichi Imanishi was sent away at 0454, his last words garbled by a faulty telephone connection. 1962 Changing Times Jan. Improperly timed machines garble the sound, producing distortions. 2003 Mirror (Nexis) 1 Mar. 6 Many famous sayings have been garbled in the retelling. b. transitive. To misrepresent or distort the meaning of (a person), either intentionally or inadvertently. ΚΠ 1834 J. A. Jones Joseph Corrected 21 Really, Joseph, this is speaking out boldly sure enough; yes, this is language that cannot be misunderstood. I have not ‘garbled’ you now, have I? 1895 F. Hall Two Trifles 8 By garbling me he indulges in uncandid suppression of the truth. 2004 M. O'Brien Conjectures of Order II. xix. 1051 James Smith Rhett of Charleston, who dabbled in Kant and much garbled him. c. (a) transitive. To say (something) in an unintelligible, incoherent, or rambling way. Frequently with out.Often with direct speech as object. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > express unintelligibly [verb (transitive)] rabblec1430 jabber1532 gabble1566 gibberish1577 cant1592 garble1879 misspeak1890 rhubarb1962 1879 M. des C. De la Tour Gluck 162 ‘The Jesuit had come after all! and he must leave his poor old grandmother to die of grief and want...’ All this the unhappy boy garbled out between his sobs and moans. 1972 C. C. Ottesen in L. R. Hartshorn Memorable Christmas Stories (1974) 136 ‘That's for you, Cheryl,’ she garbled with her mouth full. 1985 B. Barnes & T. Clarke How to get Man to make Commitment 70 Nervous and embarrassed, she garbled out a reply. 2004 D. Mitchell Cloud Atlas (U.K. ed.) 477 Confusedly, I garbled out, like a total idiot, ‘Oh, there′s been an accident!’ (b) intransitive. To talk in an unintelligible, incoherent, or rambling way; to gabble, prattle; to mumble. Frequently with on. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > talk gibberish [verb (intransitive)] rabblea1400 javerc1440 jabber1499 jabble1570 jargon1570 gabble1574 gibberish1577 gibber1604 cant1728 jibber1824 rigmarole1831 to talk through (the back of) one's neck1899 garble1913 jibber-jabber1922 jabberwock1959 1913 R. A. Maher Mantilla xvi. 235 He was murmuring quietly to himself... He garbled on unnoticing. 1974 G. Paley Enormous Changes at Last Minute (1979) 82 Speak clearly, Faith. You're garbling. 2009 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 21 Nov. 109 We the listeners do not want to know what you had for dinner last night or what you watched on TV or all the other garbage you garble on about. †6. transitive. To disembowel or remove the offal from (an animal). Cf. garbage v. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > maim or mutilate [verb (transitive)] > disembowel bowel1330 disbowelc1440 debowel1487 unpauncha1500 garbage1542 unbowel1552 disentrail1596 untripe1611 disembowel1613 exenterate1613 hulk1622 eviscerate1623 eventerate1656 garble1661 viscerate1727 degut1933 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. D2 Birds..rightly killed, garbelled, and pulled. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1431v.1419
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