From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
- [en]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
Late [en], from [en], [nds], [nds] ([de]),[1] or [en].[2]
Or, perhaps from a Scandinavian/[en] source; compare related [non], [is],
[da], especially [sv], [sv], with variants: [sv], [sv], related to [sv], [sv]
([da], [no], [no]), with a root meaning of “cover, coating of foam or
figuratively ditto”, cognate to [de] and [en]. Possibly has (a more or less
unconscious) connection to [en] (via [non], [sv]) in the sense of
“embrace”.<ref name="SAOB"/>
The ultimate origin for either could perhaps be [en] of fumbling.[3] Or, from
[en], see also [la], and possibly [gmw-pro].[4]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To handle nervously or awkwardly .
2. [en] To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
3. * [volume=II]
4. [en] To blunder uncertainly .
5. To grope about in perplexity ; to seek awkwardly.
6. * [en]
7. * [en]
8. [en] To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
9.. * {{ quote-web
|en |date=December 28, 2010 |author=Owen Phillips |title=Sunderland 0 - 2
Blackpool |work=BBC
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/9317216.stm |page=
|passage=[Jordan Henderson]'s best strike on goal saw goalkeeper [Richard
Kingson] uncomfortably FUMBLE his measured shot around the post.}}
1. To handle much; to play childish ly; to turn over and over.
2. * [2]
3. [en] Of a man, to sexually underperform . [16th to 18th c.]
***** Synonyms
- [grope awkwardly] [en] , [en] ; see also Thesaurus:feel around
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|fumble-fingered |fumblefingers |fumbler |fumblesome |fumble the bag
|fumblingly |fumblingness |outfumble |unfumbled |unfumbling }}
***** Translations
[to handle nervously or awkwardly]
- Assamese: [as]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Maori: [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] [dialectal]
[trans-bottom]
[to grope awkwardly in trying to find something]
- Assamese: [as]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea] , [kea]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[to blunder uncertainly]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Russian: [ru] (to blunder through speech)
- Scots: [sco]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to drop a ball or a baton etc]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A ball etc. that has been drop ped by accident .
***** Translations
[ball that has been dropped]
- German: [de]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
[en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A dessert similar to a cross between a [en] and a [en] .
*** Further reading
- [pedia]
*** References
References:
[1]. https://www.saob.se/artikel/?unik=F_0213-0018.DmYd
[2]. [R:New English Dictionary]
[3]. [fumble]
[4]. [2313]