skimble-skamble

Meaning

Adj

Confused, chaotic, disorderly, senseless.

Noun

Gibberish, mumbo-jumbo, nonsense.

Synonyms

confused

😕

confusedly

incoherent

nonsensical

rambling

Translations

nonsens

Hyphenated as

skim‧ble-skam‧ble

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈskɪmb(ə)lˌskæmb(ə)l/

Etymology

Reduplication of scamble (“to move about pushing and jostling, struggle for place or possession, scramble; to mangle”). The term was popularized by William Shakespeare’s use of it in the play Henry IV, Part 1 (c. 1597): see the quotation.