See famble in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "Possibly related to fumble.",
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"plural"
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}
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{
"ref": "c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bush”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:",
"text": "We clap our fambles.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1951, Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman:",
"text": "A Bow Street Runner says \"I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Nancy Kress, Yanked!, page 47:",
"text": "I'm keeping my fambles clean on this trip.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A hand."
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"(obsolete, slang) A hand."
],
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}
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},
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"ref": "1833, Horace Smith, Gale Middleton: A Story of the Present Day - Volume 1, page 149:",
"text": "“Stow that, Jem, if you please, ” said Gemman Joe, as he had been called by his comrade.— \"Toggery is too apt to tell tales. I won't have a rag of it fambled. It's a prime job for us already, for we are to touch. five-and-twenty guineas a-piece, you know, for doing his business, and we don't get such a grab as that every day.\"",
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},
{
"ref": "1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, page 310:",
"text": "Destiny, it might be said, simply opened its mouth to speak and, for reasons no one really knew, fambled to a halt.",
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},
{
"ref": "2017, Mark Sampson, The Slip:",
"text": "“You know, I realized,” she began, her eyes sparkling in the pub's dimness, “that I didn't even catch your name at the Oxford Union the other night.” “Um, Sharpe,” I fambled. “Philip.”",
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}
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"To stammer."
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"(obsolete) To stammer."
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"text": "We clap our fambles.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1951, Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman:",
"text": "A Bow Street Runner says \"I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Nancy Kress, Yanked!, page 47:",
"text": "I'm keeping my fambles clean on this trip.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A hand."
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"(obsolete, slang) A hand."
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English falmelen.",
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"word": "fimble-famble"
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"ref": "1833, Horace Smith, Gale Middleton: A Story of the Present Day - Volume 1, page 149:",
"text": "“Stow that, Jem, if you please, ” said Gemman Joe, as he had been called by his comrade.— \"Toggery is too apt to tell tales. I won't have a rag of it fambled. It's a prime job for us already, for we are to touch. five-and-twenty guineas a-piece, you know, for doing his business, and we don't get such a grab as that every day.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, page 310:",
"text": "Destiny, it might be said, simply opened its mouth to speak and, for reasons no one really knew, fambled to a halt.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Mark Sampson, The Slip:",
"text": "“You know, I realized,” she began, her eyes sparkling in the pub's dimness, “that I didn't even catch your name at the Oxford Union the other night.” “Um, Sharpe,” I fambled. “Philip.”",
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"To stammer."
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"(obsolete) To stammer."
],
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},
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}
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