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fimble

/ˈfɪmbl̩/

fimble verb: to fumble; do (anything) imperfectly or irresolutely.

Verb

fimble (third-person singular simple present fimbles, present participle fimbling, simple past and past participle fimbled)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive) To fumble; do (anything) imperfectly or irresolutely.

Noun

fimble (plural fimbles)

  1. The male hemp plant.

fimble meaning in Tamil

fimble in Tamil

அடுத்தாரை மயக்கி

Forms of fimble

Verb
third-person singular presentfimbles
present participlefimbling
past participlefimbled
pastfimbled
Noun
pluralfimbles
alternative formfemble

Origin of fimble

From a dialectal variant of fumble.

From Middle Dutch femele, fimele (“cannabis brevior”), from fimelen (“to tease: flax, hemp, wool, etc.; to move quickly, fiddle, play, trifle”) (whence Dutch fijmelen, femelen), related to Middle Low German fimmelen, fimmeren (“to grope about”), German fimmeln (“to grope; fumble”), West Frisian fimelje (“to pick; fiddle' trifle”), English fimble (“to fumble”). Alternatively, it is sometimes suggested that Middle Dutch femele is from French chanvre) femelle (“female (hemp)”), which was applied to the male hemp plant as it is smaller and was therefore believed to be female; this would parallel the old designation of the larger, female plant as carl-hemp (“man-hemp”).

Words that rhyme with fimble

Questions about fimble

What does fimble mean?
Fimble means to fumble; do (anything) imperfectly or irresolutely.
What is fimble in Tamil?
Fimble in Tamil is அடுத்தாரை மயக்கி. See Fimble meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fimble?
Fimble can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce fimble?
Fimble is pronounced /ˈfɪmbl̩/.
What is the past tense of fimble?
The past tense of fimble is fimbled.

Words near fimble in the dictionary

  1. Filyaws
  2. filé
  3. FIM
  4. fimasartan
  5. Fimber
  6. fimble
  7. fimble-famble
  8. fimble-fambles
  9. fimbled
  10. fimbles
  11. fimbling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fimble (page history and authors); fimble (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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