Word Meanings - SKIMBLE-SCAMBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rambling; disorderly; unconnected. Such a deal of skimble-scamble stuff. Shak.

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• SCAMBLER
  1. One who scambles. 2. A bold intruder upon the hospitality of others; a mealtime visitor.
• SKIMBLE-SCAMBLE
  Rambling; disorderly; unconnected. Such a deal of skimble-scamble stuff. Shak.
• RAMBLINGLY
  In a rambling manner.
• STUFFING
  Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. 3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint
• RAMBLE
  Etym: 1. To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect
• DISORDERLY
  Offensive to good morals and public decency; notoriously offensive; as, a disorderly house. Syn. -- Irregular; immethodical; confused; tumultuous; inordinate; intemperate; unruly; lawless; vicious. (more info) 1. Not in order; marked by disorder;
• STUFFINESS
  The quality of being stuffy.
• RAMBLING
  Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.
• STUFFER
  One who, or that which, stuffs.
• SCAMBLE
  1. To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble. "Some scambling shifts." Dr. H. More. "A fine old hall, but a scambling house." Evelyn. 2. To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent;
• STUFFY
  1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. Jamieson. 2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. 3. Ill-ventilated; close.
• RAMBLER
  One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.
• STUFF
  A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. Ham. Nav. Encyc. 8. Paper stock ground ready for use. Note: When partly ground, called half stuff. Knight. Clear stuff. See
• SCRAMBLING
  Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
• BRAMBLING
  The European mountain finch ; -- called also bramble finch and bramble.
• SCRAMBLED EGGS
  Eggs of which the whites and yolks are stirred together while cooking, or eggs beaten slightly, often with a little milk, and stirred while cooking.
• BRAMBLY
  Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles. "In brambly wildernesses." Tennyson.
• SCRAMBLE
  1. To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks. 2. To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what
• BREADSTUFF
  Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
• BRAMBLE
  Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub. The thorny brambles, and embracing bushes. Shak.
• BRAMBLE BUSH
  The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together. He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. Mother Goose.
• BRAMBLE NET
  A net to catch birds.
• DYESTUFF
  A material used for dyeing.