Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To stammer.
- noun A hand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang & Obs. A hand.
- intransitive verb obsolete To stammer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, slang A
hand .
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Examples
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The thirteenth a famble, false rings for to sell, [17]
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer
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-- Ed. 6 "To famble," to falter, or stammer in speech: obsolete.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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Let's just skip all the fimble-famble and get right to his comments, shall we?
DVICE Atom Feed Kevin Hall 2010
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Knock out 'is ivories -- choke' im wi 'your famble! "
Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915
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