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Scabbled vs Scambled - What's the difference?

scabbled | scambled |

As verbs the difference between scabbled and scambled

is that scabbled is past tense of scabble while scambled is past tense of scamble.

scabbled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (scabble)

    • scabble

    English

    Verb

    (scabbl)
  • To roughly dress stone.

    • scambled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (scamble)

    • scamble

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (scambl)
  • To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.
  • * 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61:
    • "Or if you will say, that there may some scambling shift be made without them "
  • To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble; struggle for place or possession.
  • *1596 , Shakespeare, King John, act IV scene III
  • *:How easy dost thou take all England up!
  • *:From forth this morsel of dead royalty,
  • *:The life, the right and truth of all this realm
  • *:Is fled to heaven; and England now is left
  • *:To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth
  • *:The unowed interest of proud-swelling state.
  • To mangle.
    • (Mortimer)