jerrycummumble
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
34
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When Colonel Ochiltree saw that, Damn my bones V says he, 'get the chariot!' and he put fox and hounds and overseer all in it, Jerrycummumble, and brought 'em home."
- "[…] we were in a big stretch of purely Mongol land, and most of the broken soldiery were keeping farther to the south, making for the Kan-su border. Our neighbors were a hu-la-mao’rh — an expression meaning, more or less, jerrycummumble. The hu-la-mao'rh аге a recognized class among the Kuei-hua caravans."
- "You’re free and equal Faeries. Forget your book of laws and knock the old wooly-pate down with a magical jerrycummumble."
- "[…] not to jerrycummumble him about further."
- "Come, Kalaquinn, out with it. I’m certain it would take more than a pull of Persy’s mulled wine to jerrycummymble the tongue of one of Frysan Wright’s sons. If there’s danger, old Persy should know about it."
Etymology
* jerry from jerry or Jerry. Similar to jerry-built or "jerry-sneak". Possibly taken from Jerry, a nickname for Germans. * jerrycummumble and its alternative jerrymumble possibly made to rhyme with fumble, rumble, or tumble. * Potentially related to "jerry-cum-fumble". * Its earliest documented usage is 1709, but Green's Dictionary exemplifies frequent usage of the term between 1785 and 1834.
Usage
Inflected Forms
jerrycummumbles (present, singular)
jerrycummumbling (participle, present)
jerrycummumbled (participle, past)
jerrycummumbled (past)
jerrymumble (alternative)