Word Meanings - JUMBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up. Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together Burton. Every clime and age Jumbled together. Tennyson. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JUMBLE)

• Botch
• Patch
• cobble
• blunder
• clump
• disconcert
• spoil
• jumble
• mess
• bungle
• mar
• blacksmith
• Medley
• Jumble
• tumult
• confusion
• mixture
• hodge-podge
• litter
• diversity
• miscellany
• Miscellany
• Mixture
• Intermixture
• medley
• variety

Related words: (words related to JUMBLE)

• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• BUNGLER
  A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• BOTCHERY
  A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• COBBLER
  1. A mender of shoes. Addison. 2. A clumsy workman. Shak. 3. A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry. Cobbler fish , a marine fish of the Atlantic. The name alludes to its threadlike fin rays.
• COBBLE
  A fishing boat. See Coble.
• DISCONCERT
  1. To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy. 2. To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash. The embrace disconcerted
• SPOIL
  1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
• BOTCHERLY
  Bungling; awkward.
• BOTCHER
  A young salmon; a grilse. (more info) 1. One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak. 2. A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.
• SPOILER
  1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
• BLUNDERING
  Characterized by blunders.
• CLUMPER
  To form into clumps or masses. Vapors . . . clumpered in balls of clouds. Dr. H. More.
• LITTERATEUR
  One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus. " Befriended by one kind-hearted littérateur after another." C. Kingsley.
• SPOILSMAN
  One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public
• CLUMPS
  A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups,
• SPOILABLE
  Capable of being spoiled.
• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• FLITTERMOUSE
  A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
• PINPATCH
  The common English periwinkle.
• DISPATCHMENT
  The act of dispatching. State Trials .
• PHASE SPLITTER
  A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.
• SLITTER
  One who, or that which, slits.