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Definition of Fumbling
1. Adjective. Showing lack of skill or aptitude. "His fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
Similar to: Unskilled
Derivative terms: Clumsiness, Incompetence, Incompetency
Definition of Fumbling
1. Verb. (present participle of fumble) ¹
2. Noun. An instance of clumsiness, especially of the hands or fingers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fumbling
1. fumble [v] - See also: fumble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fumbling
Literary usage of Fumbling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"Bark. to his gilded bark With fond reluctance, Agr. 196. Baron. Gir t with many
a Baron bold Bard 111. Baronets. From fumbling baronets and poets email, ..."
2. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) by John Matthews Manly (1916)
"... His withered fist still knocking at death's door, fumbling and drivelling as
he draws his breath, 335 For brief, the shape and messenger of Death. ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"... A fourth bestrides his fellow, thinking to 'scape Still fumbling on a gittern.
The rude multitude, (As did Arion) on the dolphin's back, Cast from the ..."
4. Others for 1919: An Anthology of the New Verse by Alfred Kreymborg (1920)
"TO A fumbling LOVER The sea would know the way to go about it The moon has taught
the tide a thousand subtle ways of mastery so that it neither lingers nor ..."
5. Spain under Charles the Second, or extracts from the correspondence of the by Alexander Stanhope (1840)
"His tongue is travada, as they express it, that is, he has such a fumbling in
his speech, those near him hardly understand him, at which he sometimes grows ..."
6. On the Study of Celtic Literature ; And, On Translating Homer by Matthew Arnold (1893)
"her genius, Germany has already obtained excellent results, and is destined, we
may depend upon it, however her pedantry, her slowness, her fumbling, ..."
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