jumbling
present participle of jumble
jumbling (plural jumblings)
The act by which something is jumbled or confused.
Nor is your Skill, or Labour less, / When bent upon some smart Lampoon, / You toss and turn your Brain till Noon; / Which, in its Jumblings round the Skull, / Dilates, and makes the Vessel full […]
Source: Wiktionary
Jum"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jumbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Jumbling.] Etym: [Prob. fr. jump, i. e., to make to jump, or shake.]
Definition: 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 Burton. Every clime and age Jumbled together. Tennyson.
Jum"ble, v. i.
Definition: To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly. Swift.
Jum"ble, n.
1. A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words.
2. A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 June 2025
(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
