Scamble vs Crumble - What's the difference?
scamble | crumble |
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:
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.
To fall apart; to disintegrate.
To render into crumbs.
A dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.
As verbs the difference between scamble and crumble
is that scamble is to move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble while crumble is to fall apart; to disintegrate.As a noun crumble is
a dessert of British origin containing stewed fruit topped with a crumbly mixture of fat, flour, and sugar.scamble
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(scambl)- "Or if you will say, that there may some scambling shift be made without them "
- (Mortimer)