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Scumble vs Scamble - What's the difference?

scumble | scamble |

As verbs the difference between scumble and scamble

is that scumble is to apply an opaque glaze to an area of a painting to make it softer or duller while scamble is to move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.

As a noun scumble

is an opaque kind of glaze (layer of paint).

scumble

English

Noun

(-)
  • An opaque kind of glaze (layer of paint).

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • 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

    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)