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"etymology_text": "From a dialectal variant of fumble.",
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"tags": [
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"third-person"
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},
{
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"participle",
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},
{
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{
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"glosses": [
"To fumble; do (anything) imperfectly or irresolutely."
],
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"links": [
[
"fumble",
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]
],
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"(intransitive, dialectal) To fumble; do (anything) imperfectly or irresolutely."
],
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"dialectal",
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɪmbl̩/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪmbəl"
}
],
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}
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"etymology_number": 2,
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"args": {
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"2": "dum",
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},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch femele",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "fijmelen"
},
"expansion": "Dutch fijmelen",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
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"2": "fimmelen"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German fimmelen",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "fimmeln",
"3": "",
"4": "to grope; fumble"
},
"expansion": "German fimmeln (“to grope; fumble”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
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"1": "fy",
"2": "fimelje",
"3": "",
"4": "to pick; fiddle' trifle"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
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"2": "fr",
"3": "chanvre"
},
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"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle Dutch femele, fimele (“cannabis brevior”), from fimelen (“to tease: flax, hemp, wool, etc.; to move quickly, fiddle, play, trifle”) (whence Dutch fijmelen, femelen), related to Middle Low German fimmelen, fimmeren (“to grope about”), German fimmeln (“to grope; fumble”), West Frisian fimelje (“to pick; fiddle' trifle”), English fimble (“to fumble”). Alternatively, it is sometimes suggested that Middle Dutch femele is from French chanvre) femelle (“female (hemp)”), which was applied to the male hemp plant as it is smaller and was therefore believed to be female; this would parallel the old designation of the larger, female plant as carl-hemp (“man-hemp”).",
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},
{
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"The male hemp plant."
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},
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],
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{
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"present",
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},
{
"form": "fimbling",
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{
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"To fumble; do (anything) imperfectly or irresolutely."
],
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[
"fumble",
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]
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"(intransitive, dialectal) To fumble; do (anything) imperfectly or irresolutely."
],
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"dialectal",
"intransitive"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈfɪmbl̩/"
},
{
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],
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},
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"name": "der"
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{
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},
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},
{
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"2": "fimmelen"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German fimmelen",
"name": "cog"
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"4": "to grope; fumble"
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"name": "cog"
},
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"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "fimelje",
"3": "",
"4": "to pick; fiddle' trifle"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"2": "fr",
"3": "chanvre"
},
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"name": "der"
}
],
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{
"form": "fimbles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "femble",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
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],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"word": "fimble-famble"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"The male hemp plant."
],
"links": [
[
"hemp",
"hemp"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɪmbl̩/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪmbəl"
}
],
"word": "fimble"
}
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