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/fˈəmbəlɪŋ/ /fˈəmblɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Fumble v. t. To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together.

Fumble v. i. (past & past part. fumbled; pres. part. fumbling)

To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something. "Adams now began to fumble in his pockets."

To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse. "My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles." "Alas! how he fumbles about the domains."

To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over. "I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers."

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Etymology of 'Fumbling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fumbling" Quotes from Famous Books

... There came a fumbling at the handle, and a moment later the door opened, and revealed, as she had at once known and feared it ...

— The Lodger • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... thought you ought to be taken down a peg. I knew I was a squaw, but I wanted to see if I were not like other women, after all, and if you were not like other men." She was talking rapidly now, almost shrilly, for she had never attempted to act before, while he stood dazed and speechless, fumbling at his throat while she railed at him. "You needn't waste time debating whether I'm good enough for you, because I'm not—decidedly, I'm not your kind, and you are a joke ...

— The Barrier • Rex Beach

... over the Very Young Man as he recognized the face of Targo. And then his heart seemed to stop beating. For as he stared, fascinated, into the man's mocking eyes, he saw that slowly, steadily he was growing larger. Mechanically the Very Young Man's hand went to his armpit, his fingers fumbling at the pouch strapped underneath. The vial ...

— The Girl in the Golden Atom • Raymond King Cummings

... little delay in the cloakroom while the attendant searched for Philip's hat, which had been temporarily misplaced. Honeybrook, who had followed the two men out of the room, fumbling for a moment in his locker and, coming over to Philip, dropped something ...

— The Cinema Murder • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... bottom. He lay prone for a moment before he rose and made his way with evident effort toward the sphere. He entered the compartment and with a heroic effort lifted the outer door into place, and feebly and with fumbling fingers placed nuts on the bolts. His hands wandered uncertainly toward the valves and closed the upper one. He waved his hand toward Carnes and sank in a heap on the floor ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various

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