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Date "SKIMBLE-SKAMBLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Skimble-Skamble Rambling, worthless. "Skamble" is merely a variety of scramble, hence "scambling days," those days in Lent when no regular meals are provided, but each person "scrambles" or shifts for himself. "Skimble" is added to give force. (See Reduplicated Words .) "And such a deal of skinble-skamble stuff As put me from my faith." Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., iii. 1. "With such scamble-scemble, spitter-spatter, As puts me cleane beside the money-matter." Taylor's Workes, ii. 39(1630). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SKIMBLE-SKAMBLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i palidhur (abrupt, disjointed, free, incoherent, scrappy, unattached, unbound, unrelated, untied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | összefüggéstelen (abrupt, discontinuous, discursive, disjointed, inasmuch, incoherent, loose, rambling, scrappy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | imble-skambleskay бессвязный (delirious, disconnected, incoherent, rambling, rigmarole, stray, unconnected). (various references) zbrda-zdola (hastily), ispreturan, bez veze. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-e-i-k-k-l-l-m-m-s-s" | |
-4 letters: semblables. | |
-5 letters: blameless, mislabels, selamliks, semblable. | |
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