Garble vs Jumble - What's the difference?
garble | jumble |
(obsolete) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices.
To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.
To make false by mutilation or addition
(obsolete) refuse; rubbish
(obsolete) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; garblings.
(Webster 1913)
to mix or confuse
* Burton
* Tennyson
to meet or unite in a confused way
A mixture of unrelated things.
(British) Items for a rummage sale.
(archaic) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
As verbs the difference between garble and jumble
is that garble is (obsolete) to sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices while jumble is to mix or confuse.As nouns the difference between garble and jumble
is that garble is (obsolete) refuse; rubbish while jumble is a mixture of unrelated things.garble
English
Verb
- The editor garbled the story.
Derived terms
* garbley gookNoun
(en noun)- (Wolcott)
External links
* *jumble
English
Verb
(jumbl)- Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together?
- Every clime and age jumbled together.
