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Antonyms for fumbler
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fuhm-buhl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfʌm bəl |
Definition of fumbler
Origin :- mid-15c., "handle clumsily," possibly from Old Norse falma "to fumble, grope." Similar words in Scandinavian and North Sea Germanic suggest onomatopoeia from a sound felt to indicate clumsiness (cf. bumble, stumble, and obsolete English famble, fimble of roughly the same meaning). Related: Fumbled; fumbling.
- As in bungler : noun person who blunders
- As in butterfingers : noun a clumsy person
- As in blunderer : noun clumsy person
- As in botcher : noun blunderer
- My Husband is not usually a fumbler either with hand or tongue.
- Extract from : « Rainy Week » by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- The operations which as dresser he performed or assisted in are said to have proved him no fumbler.
- Extract from : « Life of John Keats » by Sidney Colvin
Synonyms for fumbler
- addlebrain
- blockhead
- blunderer
- bonehead
- botcher
- bull in a china shop
- bumbler
- bungler
- butcher
- butterfingers
- clod
- clumsy oaf
- clunker
- dolt
- donkey
- duffer
- dunce
- featherbrain
- fool
- foozle
- foul-up
- fumbler
- goof off
- goofball
- harebrain
- idiot
- ignoramus
- incompetent
- klutz
- lummox
- mismanager
- muddler
- muffer
- numskull
- schlemiel
- schlep
- screw up
- spoiler
- stumbler
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