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scambling

scambling is the present participle and gerund of scamble.

Meaning of scamble

Verb

scamble (third-person singular simple present scambles, present participle scambling, simple past and past participle scambled)

  1. (intransitive) To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.
    • Or if you will say, that there may some scambling shift be made without them […]1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61
  2. (intransitive) To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble; struggle for place or possession.
    • How easy dost thou take all England up!
      From forth this morsel of dead royalty,
      The life, the right and truth of all this realm
      Is fled to heaven; and England now is left
      To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth
      The unowed interest of proud-swelling state.1596, Shakespeare, King John, act IV scene III
  3. (transitive) To mangle.
    • finding my Wood cut in Patches , and other parts of it scambled and cut before it was at its Growth1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC
  4. (transitive) To squander.

Noun

scambling (plural scamblings)

  1. (obsolete) A hasty meal.

Forms of scambling

pluralscamblings

Words formed from scambling

Phrases with scambling

Questions about scambling

What does scambling mean?
Scambling means a hasty meal.
What is scambling the present participle and gerund of?
Scambling is the present participle and gerund of scamble.
What part of speech is scambling?
Scambling is a noun.
What is the plural of scambling?
The plural of scambling is scamblings.

Words near scambling in the dictionary

  1. scambled
  2. scambler
  3. scamblers
  4. scambles
  5. Scamblesby
  6. scambling
  7. scambling day
  8. scambling days
  9. scamblingly
  10. scamblings
  11. scambot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scambling (page history and authors); scamble (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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