"fimble" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfɪmbəl/ Forms: fimbles [plural]
Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|dum|femele}} Middle Dutch femele, {{m|dum|fimele||cannabis brevior}} fimele (“cannabis brevior”), {{m|dum|fimelen||to tease: flax, hemp, wool, etc.; to move quickly, fiddle, play, trifle}} fimelen (“to tease: flax, hemp, wool, etc.; to move quickly, fiddle, play, trifle”), {{cog|nl|fijmelen}} Dutch fijmelen, {{m|nl|femelen}} femelen, {{cog|gml|fimmelen}} Middle Low German fimmelen, {{m|gml|fimmeren||to grope about}} fimmeren (“to grope about”), {{cog|de|fimmeln||to grope; fumble}} German fimmeln (“to grope; fumble”), {{cog|fy|fimelje||to pick; fiddle' trifle}} West Frisian fimelje (“to pick; fiddle' trifle”), {{m|en|fimble||to fumble}} fimble (“to fumble”), {{m|dum|femele}} femele, {{der|en|fr|chanvre}} French chanvre, {{m|fr|femelle||female (hemp)}} femelle (“female (hemp)”), {{m|en|carl|carl-hemp|man-hemp}} carl-hemp (“man-hemp”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} fimble (plural fimbles)
  1. The male hemp plant. Categories (lifeform): Hemp family plants Synonyms: femble Related terms: fimble-famble
    Sense id: en-fimble-en-noun-B5e3vJZy Disambiguation of Hemp family plants: 90 10 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 29 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 77 23
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /ˈfɪmbəl/ Forms: fimbles [present, singular, third-person], fimbling [participle, present], fimbled [participle, past], fimbled [past]
Etymology: From a dialectal variant of fumble. Etymology templates: {{m|en|fumble}} fumble Head templates: {{en-verb}} fimble (third-person singular simple present fimbles, present participle fimbling, simple past and past participle fimbled)
  1. (intransitive, dialectal) To fumble; do (anything) imperfectly or irresolutely. Tags: dialectal, intransitive
    Sense id: en-fimble-en-verb-KngW-UX-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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