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English Dictionary: fumble	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for fumble
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fumble n (sports) dropping the ball Synonym(s): fumble, muff v feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom" Synonym(s): grope, fumble make one's way clumsily or blindly; "He fumbled towards the door" Synonym(s): fumble, blunder handle clumsily make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" Synonym(s): botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder; "fumble a grounder"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fumble \Fum"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fumbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fumbling}.] [Akin to D. fommelen to crumple, fumble, Sw. fumla to fusuble, famla to grope, Dan. famle to grope, fumble, Icel. falme, AS. folm palm of the hand. See {Feel}, and cf. {Fanble}, {Palm}.] 1. To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. Adams now began to fumble in his pockets. --Fielding. 2. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse. --Dryden. My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles. --Chesterfield. Alas! how he fumbles about the domains. --Wordsworth. 3. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over. I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fumble \Fum"ble\, v. t. To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together. --Shak.