fumble

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. (intransitive, transitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
2. (intransitive, transitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
3. (intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
4. To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
5. (intransitive, transitive) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
6. To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
7. (obsolete, slang) Of a man, to sexually underperform.

Noun

A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.

Noun

A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble.

Sinonieme

grope

muff

touch

bungle

feel

grope for

fail

botch

stroke

fondle

flub

fluff

foul up

fuck up

bollocks

ball up

blow

blunder

bobble

bollix

search

bumble

clumsy

fiddle

mess up

mishandle

muck up

screw up

spoil

unable

bollix up

bollocks up

botch up

louse up

scrabble

bodge

seek

🔍

slip up

rummage in

finger

twiddle

fumble about

go out

look for

failing to catch a ball

miscarry

fish

🐟

date

📅

muezzin

flounder

Vertalings

tasten

morrelen

tâtonner

scharrelen

tasten

chapucear

armeggiare

umhertasten

niquer

👉👌

fummeln

friemelen

arruïnar

أفْسد

grapejar

palpar

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈfʌmbəl/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: -

Verwante met Duits: fummeln

Verwante met Old Norse: fálma

Verwante met Yslands: fálma

Verwante met Deens: fumle

Verwante met Sweeds: fumla

Verwante met Sweeds: fim

Verwante met Deens: fim

Verwante met Noors: fim

Verwante met Duits: Feim

Verwante met Engels: foam

Verwante met Latyn: palpo

In summary

Late Middle English, from Low German fummeln, fommeln, fammeln (German fummeln), or Dutch fommelen.
Or, perhaps from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source; compare related Old Norse fálma, Icelandic fálma, Danish fumle, especially Swedish fumla, famla, with variants: fumbla (“fumble”), fambla (“famble”), related to Swedish fim, fem (Danish fim, Norwegian fim, feima), with a root meaning of “cover, coating of foam or figuratively ditto”, cognate to German Feim (“surf”) and English foam. Possibly has (a more or less unconscious) connection to fathom (via Old Norse faðmr, Swedish famn) in the sense of “embrace”.
The ultimate origin for either could perhaps be imitative of fumbling. Or, from Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to shake, swing”), see also Latin palpo (“I pat, touch softly”), and possibly Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan (“to feel”).