JUMBLE, JUMBLED
ADJECTIVES
► ALL TOGETHER LIKE BROWN’S COWS in a disorderly gathering or a jumble → 19C Irish sl.
► FARMISHT confused, jumbled, mixed up → 1982 Amer. Yiddish
► HOTCHPOT confused, jumbled; inconsistent → 1588 obs.
► HOTCHPOTCH confused, jumbled; inconsistent → 1556
► HUGGER disorderly, jumbled → 1923 Amer. dial.
► JAMBLED bewildered, confused, muddled, jumbled, befuddled; awry → 1745 Amer. dial.
► JAMBLED UP confused, jumbled, befuddled; awry → 1967 Amer. dial.
► JARBLED jumbled, disordered → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► JUMBLY confused, chaotic, in a jumble → 1864
► MACARONIC of the nature of a jumble or medley → 1611 obs.
► MIXIE-MAXIE ► MIXY-MAXY jumbled together; mixed up, confused → 1863 Eng. dial.
► MIXTIE-MAXTIE ► MIXTY-MAXTY jumbled together; confused; mixed → 1863 Sc.
► RUMBLED ► RUMBLED UP jumbled, stirred up → 1968 Amer. dial.
► UMLE-JUMALD mixed or jumbled together → 1861 Eng. dial.
► UP-JUMLET jumbled up → 1896 Eng. dial.
NOUNS
► BUMBLE a confused, disorganized, or untidy collection of things; a jumble, a muddle, a mess → 1648
► GALLIMAUFRY a heterogeneous mixture, a confused jumble, a ridiculous medley → 1551-6
► HATERY ► HATRY a confused jumble → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► HATTER a jumble, a confused crowd; a knot or tangle → 1835 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HATTEREL ► HATTREL a large quantity; a miscellaneous collection, a jumble → 1823 Sc. & N. Ireland
► HEDLEY-MEDLEY a jumble, confusion → 1646 obs.
► HOTCHPOT a confused mixture of disparate things; a jumble, a medley → c1405
► HOTCHPOTCH a confused mixture of disparate things; a jumble, a medley → c1410
► HUMBLE-JUMBLE a confused jumble → 1550
► JUMMIX a jumble, mix; disorder → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► MACARONIC a jumble or medley → 1611 obs.
► MARE’S NEST an untidy jumble; a mess; a tangle of debris in a stream → 1948 Amer. dial.
► MIX-MEDLEY a jumble → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
► FERHOODLE to jumble; to botch → 1969 Amer. dial.
► FUBBLE to jumble up → 1611 obs.
► GAR to jumble, to mix or mess up by stirring, etc. → 1866 Sc.
► HOTCHPOTCH to jumble up or together indiscriminately → 1576
► JAAMBLE to jumble; to shake; to mix by agitation → 1790 Sc.
► JABBLE to confuse, to jumble → 1901 Sc.
► JARGOGLE to confuse, to jumble → 1692 obs.
► JUMPER to introduce discordantly or incongruously; to jumble together → c1374 obs.
► MINGLE-MANGLE to confuse; to make a medley of; to mix up; to jumble together → 1549
► MOMBLE to jumble together; to ravel, to tangle; to wrinkle, to crumple; to crumble; to mess; to bungle; to do anything in a clumsy way → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MUCKLE UP to disarrange, to jumble, to rumple → 1970 Amer. dial.
► MUMBLE to handle roughly or clumsily; to maul; to mix up in confusion, to jumble → 1588 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► PALTER to jumble up; to patch up a composition; to compose hastily → 1588 obs.
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