jumblen.1
/ˈdʒʌmbl/, U.S. /ˈdʒəmb(ə)l/ 1.
a. A confused or disorderly mixture or assemblage, a medley; also, disorder, muddle.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > incongruous mixture
hotchpotc1405
hodge-podgec1426
omnigatherum?a1430
mishmashc1475
peasemeala1525
omnium gatherum1530
mingle1548
hotchpotch1549
mingle-mangle1549
gallimaufry1551
rhapsody1574
sauce-medley1579
pell-mellc1586
linsey-woolsey1592
wilderness1594
brewage1599
motley1609
macaronic1611
medley1618
olla podridaa1635
farragoa1637
consarcination1640
porridge1642
olio1645
bisque1653
mélange1653
hash1660
jumble1661
farrage1698
capilotade1705
jargon1710
salmagundi1761
pasticcio1785
pea meal1789
ollapod1804
mixty-maxty1818
macédoine1820
ragbag1820
haggis1822
job lot1828
allsorts1831
conglomerate1837
pot-pourri1841
chow-chow1850
breccia1873
pastiche1873
macaroni1884
mixed bag1919
casserole1930
mixed bunch1958
rattle-bag1982
mulligan1993
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > a disorderly collection
rabblea1398
hotchpotc1405
hotchpotchc1410
mishmashc1475
gaggle?1478
chaos?1550
humble-jumble1550
huddle1587
wilderness1594
lurry1607
hatterc1626
farragoa1637
bumble1648
higgledy-piggledy1659
jumble1661
clutter1666
hugger-mugger1674
litter1730
imbroglio1753
confusion1791
cludder1801
hurrah's nest1829
hotter1834
welter1857
muddle1863
splatter1895
shamble1926
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [noun] > a confused assemblage or mixture
mishmashc1475
rabblement1539
mingle-mangle1549
bumble broth1572
bumble-bath1595
mash1601
colluvies1647
bumble1648
farrago1650
higgledy-piggledy1659
jumble1661
farrage1698
tumble1755
pie1837
Sargasso Sea1855
wirrwarra1866
chop suey1888
dog's breakfast1892
dog's dinner1902
sargasso1934
paella1939
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xviii Had the world been coagmented from that supposed fortuitous jumble.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 551 There is a confused Jumble of Created, and Uncreated Beings together.
1712 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. Jan. (1965) I. 114 I have the oddest Jumble of disagreable things in my head that ever plagu'd poor mortals.
1751 R. O. Cambridge Scribleriad ii. 184 (note) The Macaronian is..a jumble of words of different languages, with words of the vulgar tongue latinized, and latin words modernized.
1882 E. A. Floyer Unexplored Baluchistan 60 The scenery..is..a reckless jumble of hills and rocks of every imaginable shape, size, and colour.
b. collective singular. Articles for a jumble-sale; also, a jumble-sale or sales. colloquial.
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society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > bazaar, jumble sale, or sale of work
bazaar1807
fair1826
fête1830
festival1843
church fair1844
sale of work1859
rummage sale1890
jumble-sale1898
jumble1931
mini-market1976
society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > articles for a jumble sale
jumble1931
1931 Times 16 Mar. 1/3 Maternity Hospital, holding annual Jumble Sale.—Please deluge us with jumble.
1932 Daily Tel. 17 Mar. 1/2 Do please help us with our Easter Jumble on March 18th by sending anything saleable, old or new.
1962 H. Thurston Where is thy Sting? iii. 32 The delivery of some jumble for the church fête.
1966 Listener 20 Oct. 570/1 This feat of administration, this orgy of jumble and whist.
1973 J. Burrows Like Evening Gone ii. 27 When did the scouts have their jumble? I'd have thought every gloryhole..was empty.
2. A shock, shaking, or jolting; colloquial, a ride in a carriage (with reference to the shaking experienced).
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [noun] > jolt
jolt1632
jot1647
jumble1674
squat1675
jounce1784
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > a ride in a vehicle > ride in a wheeled vehicle > jolting
jumble1800
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 151 The Shows or Phænomena of the world..even the worst of its shocks and jumbles.
1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 139 Mamma has lent me her carriage to go a shopping, so I wish you would take a jumble with me.
1823 F. Burney Lett. 29 Feb. Going out..either in brisk walks..or in brisk jumbles in the carriage.
1851 J. Colquhoun Moor & Loch (1880) I. 262 The jumble of the sea made shooting uncertain.
1855 F. Chamier My Trav. I. x. 56 The carriage ought to be strong to bear the jolts and jumbles to which it is subjected.
Compounds
jumble-letters n. letters of a word thrown into disorder in order to exercise ingenuity in their proper re-arrangement.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > other word puzzles
riddleOE
logogriph1598
rebus1605
name-device1631
telesticha1637
lipogram1711
charade1776
conundrum1790
logogram1820
anagrams?1860
acrostic1861
metagram1867
word square1867
verbarian1872
jumble-letters1899
word ladder1928
Double-Crostic1934
word search1957
hangman1961
1899 Daily News 19 July 7/5 Competitions for money prizes for properly placing jumble letters.
jumble-sale n. a sale of miscellaneous cheap or second-hand articles at a charitable bazaar or the like.
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society > trade and finance > selling > a public sale > [noun] > bazaar, jumble sale, or sale of work
bazaar1807
fair1826
fête1830
festival1843
church fair1844
sale of work1859
rummage sale1890
jumble-sale1898
jumble1931
mini-market1976
1898 Westm. Gaz. 12 Nov. 2/3 Some cheap articles for a jumble sale.
jumble-shop n. a shop where very miscellaneous goods are sold.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods
jeweller's shop1632
ironmongery1648
ironmonger1673
jeweller1675
news shop1688
print shop1689
Indian house1692
coal shed1718
pamphlet shop1721
lormery1725
drugstore1771
hardware store1777
junk store1777
chandler-shop1782
junk shop1790
music store1794
pot shop1794
finding store1822
marine store1837
picture house1838
paint shop1847
news agency1852
chemist1856
Army and Navy1878
cyclery1886
jumble-shop1893
pig shop1896
Manchester department1905
lot1909
craft shop1911
garden centre1912
pet shop1927
sex shop1949
video store1949
quincaillerie1951
home centre1955
Army-Navy1965
cookshop1967
sound shop1972
bucket-shop1973
1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 287 Trudgeon that used to keep the jumble-shop across the water.
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Jumblen.2
/ˈdʒʌmbl/, U.S. /ˈdʒəmb(ə)l/ slang.
A black man's nickname for a white man. Also attributive or as adj.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun]
white mana1398
Christian1622
European1666
white-face1684
long knife1784
buckra1794
sahib1796
white-skin1803
whitey1811
Pakeha1817
papalagi1817
paleface1823
whitefellow1826
Abelungu1836
haole1843
gringo1849
lightiea1855
umlungu1859
mzungu1860
heaven-burster1861
ladino1877
mooniasc1880
Conchy Joe1888
béké1889
ofay1899
ridge runner1904
Ngati Pakeha1905
kelch1912
pink1913
leucoderm1924
fay1927
Mr Charlie1928
pinkie1935
devil1938
wonk1938
oaf1941
grey1943
paddy1945
Caucasoid1956
Jumble1957
Caucasian1958
white boy1958
pinko-grey1964
honky1967
toubab1976
palagi1977
1957 C. MacInnes City of Spades i. iii. 17 ‘You're a Jumble, man... That's what we call you... It's cheeky, perhaps, but not so very insulting.’ ‘May I enquire how it is spelt?’ ‘J-o-h-n-b-u-l-l.’ ‘..But pronounced as you pronounce it?’ ‘Yes: Jumble.’
1957 Listener 12 Sept. 402/1 Jumble, a happy corruption of John Bull, is the Englishman's nickname in the mouths of the thousands of Africans and West Indians who have flocked to London since the war.
1957 Listener 12 Sept. 402/1 The Jumble capital.
1957 Listener 12 Sept. 402/1 An alien and uncomprehending Jumble world.
1961 M. Dickens Heart of London ii. 190 Get all you can out of the Jumbles.
1961 M. Dickens Heart of London iii. 294 He feeling his way about the Jumbles, he got no time to worry about Trinidad.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
jumblev.
/ˈdʒʌmbl/, U.S. /ˈdʒəmb(ə)l/ 1. † b. figurative. To be or become mixed up or confounded; to come together as by shaking up. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. To move about in mingled disorder; to flounder about in tumultuous confusion.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)] > move about in confusion or disorder
jumblea1529
fluster1613
to shove and heave1638
the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > variation [verb (intransitive)] > be jumbled together
jumblea1529
commix1606
a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 21 To jumbyll, to stombyll, to tumbyll down lyke folys.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 604/2 If..Tindalles horse..falle downe in the myre..and his maister and he lye together and iumble..till some good felowe helpe them vp.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 336 In that fearefull Caue They [sc. Furies] iumble, tumble, rumble, rage and raue.
1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy iii. 52 Now, my braines are a Iumbling.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. ii. xiv. 177 His Germans..left Wenzel to jumble about in his native Bohemian element, as King there.
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1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 266 He wes not wyss Wt sic Iangleris to Iummill.
1785 W. Cowper Let. 15 Jan. (1981) II. But we shall jumble together again.
2.
a. transitive. To mingle together or mix up in confusion or disorder; to muddle, confuse.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > make varied or diversify [verb (transitive)] > mix or jumble
jumperc1374
jumble1542
hotchpotch1573
shuffle1593
pell-mell1606
chequerc1632
hash1654
hodge-podge1773
check1790
gallimaufry1831
commix1847
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > confuse or disorder [verb (transitive)] > mix up in confusion
broil1401
blunderc1440
jumble1542
mingle1548
tumble1562
mumble1588
pell-mell1606
fubble1611
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xiii. sig. G.iv Yf they dyd knowe what they dyd gomble togyther without trewe compoundynge.
1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner 13 You confounde and iomble so togyther the naturall membres of Christes bodye in the sacrament.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxvii. xxiii. 957 Now the reereward had no roume left them toward the land: and thus..they hastily were jumbled together.
1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 39 in Scepsis Scientifica That the divided Letters of an Alphabet should be accidentally jumbled into an elegant and polite Discourse.
1779 J. Wesley Coll. Hymns Pref. 4 The hymns are not carelessly jumbled together.
1797 E. Burke Remarks Policy Allies in Three Memorials on French Affairs 193 To jumble the innocent and guilty into one mass, by a general indemnity.
1855 R. C. Singleton in tr. Virgil Wks. I. Pref. p. vi Jumbling up the one with the other.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. App. 562 William so jumbles together the events of 1051 and of 1055.
b. with complement. To put, bring, cast (in, out, down, etc.) in clumsy confusion or disorder. ? Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > confuse or disorder [verb (transitive)]
disparplea1400
rufflea1400
mingle-mangle1549
confound1553
jumblea1575
barbulye1588
Babelize1600
embroil1603
puddlea1616
confuse1630
jargogle1692
mishmash1694
to make a mull of1821
inturbidatea1834
bedevil1844
to ball up1884
jazz1914
scramble1927
balls1947
a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 168 Therefore he jumbleth in a blind false reason.
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) iv. ii. 67 Having once jumbled and crouded in a new kind of Being.
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 64 Makeing a man go before each horse, least they should iumble one another downe.
1743 H. Walpole Let. 13 Jan. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) I. 246 I should not like having my things jumbled out of one ship into another.
c. To make up in a confused or random manner.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > confuse or disorder [verb (transitive)] > to make up in a confused manner
jumble?1571
?1571 tr. G. Buchanan Detectioun Marie Quene of Scottes sig. Niv Then, that all men might vnderstand what it was that thay sought..thay iumble vp mariages.
1673 T. Blount World of Errors To Rdr. A Bookseller..employs some mercenary to jumble up another like book out of this.
1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 4 Some strange disposition of the mind jumbled up of presumption and despair.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 79 Called by a Frenchified word..that's jumbled of antique and verd.
3. absolute.1568 Wyf of Auchtirmwchty 67 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 322 Than to þe kyrn þat he did stoure And Iwmlit at it quhill he swatt.
a. To stir up (a liquid, etc.) so as to mix the ingredients, or render turbid; to agitate, shake up, give a shaking or jolting to; hence colloquial to take for a drive. ? Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)]
whirlc1290
boilc1300
balterc1400
worka1535
turmoil1547
jumble1568
swash1583
commotion1599
stimmer1616
belk1648
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > agitate [verb (transitive)]
weigha1000
dreveOE
ruska1300
commovec1374
to-stira1382
busy?c1400
tormenta1492
squalper?1527
toss1557
jumble1568
buskle1573
agitate1599
disturb1599
to work up1615
vex1627
conturbate1657
jerry-mumble1709
rejumble1755
jerrycummumble1785
reesle1903
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xiii. 87 The horse..[would have] that which is pudly and troubled..if so he iumble the water with his foot before he drinke.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 24 Oct. (1974) VIII. 499 That I might go abroad with my wife, who was not well, only to jumble her.
1693 T. P. Blount Nat. Hist. 82 They bruise and jumble it [Indigo] in the Water, till the Leaf..becomes like a Kind of thick Mud.
1744 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 275 You should give the child meat now:..and make him to be jumbled about a good deal.
1789 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (rev. ed.) II. 262 As though infants must necessarily be jumbled in the cradle like travellers in a mail-coach.
1813 P. B. Shelley in Dowden Life (1887) I. 317 You will..be better able to see the country than when jumbled in a chaise.
b. intransitive. To travel with shaking or jolting.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > shaking and jolting
rumble1642
jolt1730
jumble1748
1748 Lady Luxborough Let. Aug. in Lett. to W. Shenstone (1775) 36 I don't love to jumble in a post-chaise alone.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. v. 108 Trotting Nelly..jumbled off with her cart.
1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician I. i. x. 233 Little four-wheeled narrow carts in which they jumble to the fair.
4. transitive. To put into mental confusion; to confuse, bewilder, ‘muddle’.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > confuse, perplex, bewilder [verb (transitive)]
abobc1330
confusec1350
confoundc1374
cumbera1375
passc1384
maskerc1400
mopc1425
enose1430
manga1450
overmusec1460
perplex1477
maze1482
enmuse1502
ruffle?a1505
unsteady1532
entangle1540
duddle1548
intricate1548
distraught1579
distract1582
mizzle1583
moider1587
amuse1595
mist1598
bepuzzle1599
gravel1601
plunder1601
puzzle1603
intrigue1612
vexa1613
metagrobolize?a1616
befumea1618
fuddle1617
crucify1621
bumfiddlea1625
implicate1625
giddify1628
wilder1642
buzzlea1644
empuzzle1646
dunce1649
addle1652
meander1652
emberlucock1653
flounder1654
study1654
disorient1655
embarrass?1656
essome1660
embrangle1664
jumble1668
dunt1672
muse1673
clutter1685
emblustricate1693
fluster1720
disorientate1728
obfuscate1729
fickle1736
flustrate1797
unharmonize1797
mystify1806
maffle1811
boggle1835
unballast1836
stomber1841
throw1844
serpentine1850
unbalance1856
tickle1865
fog1872
bumfuzzle1878
wander1897
to put off1909
defeat1914
dither1919
befuddle1926
ungear1931
to screw up1941
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iii. xl. 288 My mind has been so jumbled betwixt Time and Eternity, that I think I can speak sense in neither.
1724 A. Ramsay Vision in Ever Green I. x Oppression dois the judgment jumble.
1858–61 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (1870) vi. 233 I like thae sermons best that jumbles the joodgment and confoonds the sense.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [verb (intransitive)] > roll or rumble
gothelec1290
gurlc1380
bubblea1398
wharc1400
rumblec1450
rolla1522
lumber?1527
jumble1530
thumble1584
humble1617
grumblea1625
strumble1645
growl1744
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > play instrument [verb (intransitive)] > play discordantly
jumble1530
jar1581
rasp1808
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 595/2 I iumbyll, I make a noyse by removyng of heavy thynges.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 595/2 They have iombled so ouer my heed to nyght, I could nat slepe.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 595/2 To here him iombyll on a lute.
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Biij A boysterouse basse he bounsed out, And iumbled on his stringes.
1658 T. Willsford Natures Secrets 131 If their guts jumble..very much.
1744 W. Gostling in Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 873 Like the Reports of Cannon (which the Jumbling of my Sashes prevented my distinguishing).
1809 A. Wilson Foresters in Port Folio Nov. 371 Jumbling cowbells speak some cottage near.
a. intransitive. To have carnal intercourse. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse
playOE
to do (also work) one's kindc1225
bedc1315
couple1362
gendera1382
to go togetherc1390
to come togethera1398
meddlea1398
felterc1400
companya1425
swivec1440
japea1450
mellc1450
to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474
engender1483
fuck?a1513
conversec1540
jostlec1540
confederate1557
coeate1576
jumble1582
mate1589
do1594
conjoin1597
grind1598
consortc1600
pair1603
to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608
commix1610
cock1611
nibble1611
wap1611
bolstera1616
incorporate1622
truck1622
subagitate1623
occupya1626
minglec1630
copulate1632
fere1632
rut1637
joust1639
fanfreluche1653
carnalize1703
screw1725
pump1730
correspond1756
shag1770
hump1785
conjugate1790
diddle1879
to get some1889
fuckeec1890
jig-a-jig1896
perform1902
rabbit1919
jazz1920
sex1921
root1922
yentz1923
to make love1927
rock1931
mollock1932
to make (beautiful) music (together)1936
sleep1936
bang1937
lumber1938
to hop into bed (with)1951
to make out1951
ball1955
score1960
trick1965
to have it away1966
to roll in the hay1966
to get down1967
poontang1968
pork1968
shtup1969
shack1976
bonk1984
boink1985
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 69 Dido and thee Troian captayne doo iumble in one den.
b. transitive. To know carnally. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with
mingeOE
haveOE
knowc1175
ofliec1275
to lie with (or by)a1300
knowledgec1300
meetc1330
beliea1350
yknowc1350
touchc1384
deala1387
dightc1386
usea1387
takec1390
commona1400
to meet witha1400
servea1400
occupy?a1475
engender1483
jangle1488
to be busy with1525
to come in1530
visitc1540
niggle1567
mow1568
to mix one's thigh with1593
do1594
grind1598
pepper1600
yark1600
tumble1603
to taste of1607
compressc1611
jumble1611
mix?1614
consort?1615
tastea1616
bumfiddle1630
ingressa1631
sheet1637
carnal1643
night-work1654
bump1669
bumble1680
frig?c1680
fuck1707
stick1707
screw1719
soil1722
to do over1730
shag1770
hump1785
subagitatec1830
diddle1879
to give (someone) onec1882
charver1889
fuckeec1890
plugc1890
dick1892
to make a baby1911
to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912
jazz1920
rock1922
yentz1924
roll1926
to make love1927
shtupa1934
to give (or get) a tumble1934
shack1935
bang1937
to have it off1937
rump1937
tom1949
to hop into bed (with)1951
ball1955
to make it1957
plank1958
score1960
naughty1961
pull1965
pleasurea1967
to have away1968
to have off1968
dork1970
shaft1970
bonk1975
knob1984
boink1985
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Toquer,..to iumble a woman.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxv. 202 The Lackeys..jumbled..his Wife.
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