| 释义 | ▪ I. famble, n. slang.|ˈfæmb(ə)l|
[perh. f. famble v. in its (probable) original sense ‘to grope, fumble’.]
1. A hand.
1567Harman Caveat 87 He tooke his Iockam in his famble. 1622Fletcher Beggar's Bush ii. i, Last we clap our fambles. 1673R. Head Canting Acad. 19 White thy fambles. 1815Scott Guy M. xxviii, If I had not helped you with these very fambles (holding up her hands).
†2. A ring. Obs.
1688Shadwell Sqr. Alsatia ii, Look on my finger..here's a Famble. 1691Lond. Gaz. No. 2715/4 A small Famble, made up of two little Diamonds, and 4 or 5 Rubies.
†3. = fambler b. Obs.
1673R. Head Canting Acad. 192 The thirteenth a Famble, false Rings for to sell.
▪ II. † ˈfamble, v. Obs.
Also 4 famelen.
[Of obscure origin; the word may originally have had the sense ‘to grope, fumble’; cf. Sw. famla, Da. famle to grope, metathetic form of ON. falma (Icel. fálma), cogn. with OE. folm hand.]
1. intr. To speak imperfectly; to stammer, stutter.
14..in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 224 His tonge shal stameren, oþer famelen. 1611Cotgr., Beguayer, to famble, fumble, maffle in the mouth. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Famble, to Faulter or Stammer in Speech. 1721–1800in Bailey. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss., He fambles so in his talk.
2. (See quot.)
1877Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss., Fambling, eating without an appetite.
Hence ˈfambling vbl. n., ˈfambling ppl. a.
1611Cotgr., Begayement, a fambling or maffling in the mouth. Ibid., Begué..fambling, fumbling, maffling in the mouth. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxvi. 216. |
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