Scambles vs Scumbles - What's the difference?
scambles | scumbles |
(scamble)
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.
(scumble)
An opaque kind of glaze (layer of paint).
to apply an opaque glaze to an area of a painting to make it softer or duller
:* 2000': The moon was brilliant, the path a track of '''scumbled footprints in the snow, the air cutting and cold. — Philip Pullman, ''The Amber Spyglass
* (English Citations of "scumble")
English terms with unknown etymologies
As verbs the difference between scambles and scumbles
is that scambles is (scamble) while scumbles is (scumble).scambles
English
Verb
(head)scamble
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(scambl)- "Or if you will say, that there may some scambling shift be made without them "
- (Mortimer)