FUMBLE, FUMBLER, FUMBLING
ADJECTIVES
► CAT-HAMMED awkward, clumsy, fumbling, without dexterity → 1746 Eng. dial.
► VAALEN awkward, fumbling, without dexterity → 1908 Sc. obs.
► VARLESS adj. awkward, fumbling, clumsy → 1866 Sc.
NOUNS
► THRUMBLE the act of handling overmuch or of groping or fumbling → Bk1905 Sc.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BAITIE-BUMMIL a petty fumbler → Bk1911 Sc.
PREPOSITIONS
► THUMBASING fumbling with the hands as if the fingers were all thumbs → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
VERBS
► DRUMBLE to go about a thing awkwardly; to fumble → 19C Eng. dial.
► FAFFLE to saunter; to fumble → Bk1901 obs. exc.. dial.
► FANKLE to move the feet or hands uncertainly; to stumble; to fumble → 1887 Sc.
► FINOODLE to fumble → 19C Eng. dial.
► JUFFLE to fumble ineptly; to bungle → 1535 Sc. obs.
► THRIMBLE to fumble; to hesitate, to trifle → 1781 Eng. dial.
► THRUMBLE to fumble, grope → 19C Eng. dial.
► THRUMMIL to handle, esp. to handle overmuch or awkwardly; to fumble, to grope; to tie up or fasten awkwardly → Bk1905 Sc.
► THUMBLE to handle clumsily, to fumble → 1623 Eng. dial.
► THUMPLE to fumble (a mispronunciation) → 1846 Eng. dial.
► VISSUCK to fumble → Bk1905 Eng. dial.