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"word": "fummeln"
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"sense": "to handle nervously or awkwardly",
"word": "babrál"
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{
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to handle nervously or awkwardly",
"word": "matat"
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"word": "খেপিওৱা"
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"word": "тършувам"
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"word": "tapogatózik"
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"word": "fálma"
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"sense": "to grope awkwardly in trying to find something",
"word": "meraba-raba"
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"sense": "to grope awkwardly in trying to find something",
"word": "annaspare"
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"sense": "to grope awkwardly in trying to find something",
"word": "frugare"
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"word": "探り回す"
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"word": "palpa"
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"sense": "to grope awkwardly in trying to find something",
"word": "whāwhā"
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"word": "hārau"
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"word": "нащу́пывать"
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"text": "to fumble for an excuse",
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"ref": "1711 August 12, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, letter to Dr. Chevenix:",
"text": "My understanding stutters, and my memory fumbles.",
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"ref": "1800, Wordsworth, Written in Germany on one of the coldest days of the century:",
"text": "Alas! how he fumbles about the domains.",
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"ref": "2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC:",
"text": "Henderson's best strike on goal saw goalkeeper Kingson uncomfortably fumble his measured shot around the post.",
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"ref": "1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:",
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"word": "খেপিওৱা"
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"word": "摸索"
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"word": "fumle"
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"word": "hamuilla"
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"sense": "to handle nervously or awkwardly",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
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"word": "babrál"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
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"word": "giocherellare"
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"sense": "to handle nervously or awkwardly",
"word": "pakihawa"
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"sense": "to handle nervously or awkwardly",
"word": "fomle"
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"sense": "to handle nervously or awkwardly",
"word": "мять"
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"sense": "to handle nervously or awkwardly",
"word": "тереби́ть"
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"sense": "to grope awkwardly in trying to find something",
"word": "খেপিওৱা"
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"sense": "to grope awkwardly in trying to find something",
"word": "тършувам"
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"word": "hamuilla"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to grope awkwardly in trying to find something",
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"code": "mi",
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"word": "whāwhā"
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{
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{
"code": "it",
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"code": "mi",
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"(British) A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble."
],
"tags": [
"British"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfʌmbəl/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-fumble.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/En-us-fumble.ogg/En-us-fumble.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/En-us-fumble.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌmbəl"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "famble"
},
{
"word": "fimble"
}
],
"word": "fumble"
}
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