Dumble vs. Jumble — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dumble and Jumble
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Dumble
Dumble is a dialect word meaning a wooded valley. Dumble is a dialect word mainly (but not exclusively) confined to the north and east Midlands both as a place-name element and as a lexical item.
Jumble
Jumble is a word puzzle with a clue, a drawing illustrating the clue, and a set of words, each of which is “jumbled” by scrambling its letters. A solver reconstructs the words, and then arranges letters at marked positions in the words to spell the answer phrase to the clue.
Dumble
(Nottinghamshire) A dale with a stream.
Jumble
To mix in a confused way; throw together carelessly
Jumble socks in a heap.
Dumble
(East Yorkshire) The club rush.
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Jumble
To muddle; confuse
The rapid-fire questioning jumbled the witness's thoughts.
Jumble
To be mixed in a confused way
Dividers to keep the files from jumbling.
Jumble
A confused or disordered mass
A jumble of paper scraps.
Jumble
A disordered state; a muddle
Receipts in a jumble.
Jumble
(transitive) To mix or confuse.
Jumble
(intransitive) To meet or unite in a confused way.
I tried to study, but in my half-awake state, all of the concepts seemed to jumble together.
Jumble
A mixture of often unrelated things.
Jumble
Items for a rummage sale.
Jumble
A rummage sale.
Jumble
(archaic) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
Jumble
To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; - often followed by together or up.
Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together?
Every clime and ageJumbled together.
Jumble
To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly.
Jumble
A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words.
Jumble
A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
Jumble
A confused multitude of things
Jumble
Small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie
Jumble
A theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
Jumble
Be all mixed up or jumbled together;
His words jumbled
Jumble
Assemble without order or sense;
She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence
Jumble
Bring into random order
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