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Definition of Scamble
1. v. i. To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.
2. v. t. To mangle.
Definition of Scamble
1. Verb. (intransitive) To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To mangle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scamble
1. scramble [v SCAMBLED, SCAMBLING, SCAMBLES] - See also: scramble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scamble
Literary usage of Scamble
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"Lori's Cure, ii, 1 To scamble, v. Equivalent, apparently, to scramble, which has
now usurped its place ; and possibly of the same origin, ..."
2. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"... skimble-scamble stuff," you are saved thereby ! We are at a hotel on the Rhone
just where it issues from the lake; " the arrowy Rhone" it truly is here. ..."
3. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"... Byron's poetry and Rousseau's eloquent descriptions; and what a world of
tiresome journal-reading, " skimble-scamble stuff," you are saved thereby ! ..."
4. The History of Manchester.: In Four Books. by John Whitaker (1775)
"SHAMBLING nf fuch a walk: unnoticed— SHAMBLING adj. moving awkwardly and heavily [fee
SCAMBLING]— scamble vn to run about, ..."
5. An English and Welsh Dictionary: Wherein, Not Only the Words, But Also, the by John Walters (1828)
"scamble, or scramble. See Scramble. To scamble, rn [wander up and down] Crwydro.
To scamble oter a thing, [a piece of work] My- ..."
6. A Glossary of Obscure Words and Phrases in the Writings of Shakspeare and by Charles Mackay (1887)
"A skirmish, a struggle, a contention ; to scamble, to contend. Derived by
Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic philologists from the Dutch or German schommelen, ..."
7. The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the by William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers, George Steevens, Henry Fuseli (1811)
"The life, the right, and truth of all this realm From forth this morsel of dead
royalty, Is fled to heaven; and England now is left To tug and scamble,9 and ..."
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