jumble
jumble Lexical Profile
jumble Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An untidy collection or confused pile of things mixed together without order.
"The desk drawer contained a chaotic jumble of old receipts, keys, and tangled cables."
British Secondhand articles and miscellaneous cast-off goods collected for a charity sale.
"Volunteers spent the afternoon sorting through bags of donated jumble in the parish hall."
A thin, crisp sweet cake or cookie, traditionally flavored with lemon, rosewater, or spices and often shaped into a ring or knot.
"She baked a batch of spiced almond jumbles from a nineteenth-century family recipe."
• verb
To mix or throw together in a confused, untidy, or disorderly mass.
"Moving the boxes caused the books and papers inside to jumble together."
• Rhymes for jumble
Word Origin & Etymology
First recorded in the early 16th century, likely of imitative or symbolic origin, blending sounds from words such as 'jump' and 'tumble' to evoke clumsy, disorderly movement.