fumble

Etymology 1
Late, from , , (🇨🇬), or.

Or, perhaps from a Scandinavian/ source; compare related 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, especially 🇨🇬,, with variants: , , related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, ), with a root meaning of “cover, coating of foam or figuratively ditto”, cognate to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Possibly has (a more or less unconscious) connection to (via, ) in the sense of “embrace”.

The ultimate origin for either could perhaps be of fumbling. Or, from, see also 🇨🇬, and possibly 🇨🇬.

Verb

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

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:feel around

Translations

 * Assamese: খেপিওৱা
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: fumle
 * Finnish: hamuilla,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: いじり回す
 * Maori: pakihawa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: fummle
 * Spanish:, perder el balón


 * Assamese: খেপিওৱা
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: hamuilla,
 * French:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 探り回す
 * Kabuverdianu: palpa, palpá
 * Maori: whāwhā, hārau
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: fummle
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: намацувати


 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:, , , , hebeg-habog,
 * Italian: ,
 * Maori: ninipa, pakihawa
 * Russian: (to blunder through speech)
 * Scots: fummle
 * Swedish: fumla sig,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,

Noun

 * 1)  A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.

Translations

 * German:

Etymology 2
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Noun

 * 1)  A dessert similar to a cross between a  and a.