jerrycummumble

present singular third person jerrycummumbles · participle present jerrycummumbling · participle past jerrycummumbled · past jerrycummumbled · alternative jerrymumble

1. UKslangTo shake, tousle, or tumble about; to jumble, shake, toss, or get into a muddle.

   […] not to jerrycummumble him about further.

   1985, Freemen, Joy, The last frost fair

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   When Colonel Ochiltree saw that, Damn my bones V says he, 'get the chariot!' and he put fox and hounds and overseer all in it, Jerrycummumble, and brought 'em home.

   1902, Rives, Hallie Erminie, Hearts courageous

   […] we were in a big stretch of purely Mongol land, and most of the broken soldiery were keeping farther to the south, making for the Kan-su border. Our neighbors were a hu-la-mao’rh — an expression meaning, more or less, jerrycummumble. The hu-la-mao'rh аге a recognized class among the Kuei-hua caravans.

   1929, Lattimore, Owen, “Chapter 5, Lands of Unrest”, in The desert road to turkestan

   You’re free and equal Faeries. Forget your book of laws and knock the old wooly-pate down with a magical jerrycummumble.

   1966, Tripp, Ben, The accidental highwayman : being the tale of Kit Bristol, his horse Midnight, a mysterious princess, and sundry magical persons besides

   Come, Kalaquinn, out with it. I’m certain it would take more than a pull of Persy’s mulled wine to jerrycummymble the tongue of one of Frysan Wright’s sons. If there’s danger, old Persy should know about it.

   2009, James G. Anderson & Mark Sebanc, The Stoneholding

   Synonyms: jerrymumble