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Grammar : Noun
Spell : fuhm-buhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfʌm bəl

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Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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